{"id":26716,"date":"2019-07-09T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1055373"},"modified":"2019-07-09T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T16:00:00","slug":"overcoming-addiction-tabloid-fodder-and-outgrowing-that-pie-scene-what-the-cast-of-american-pie-is-up-to-20-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/overcoming-addiction-tabloid-fodder-and-outgrowing-that-pie-scene-what-the-cast-of-american-pie-is-up-to-20-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming Addiction, Tabloid Fodder and Outgrowing That Pie Scene: What the Cast of American Pie Is Up to 20 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Somewhat of an indie darling, American Pie<\/em> was Lyonne’s first major blockbuster, thrusting her into the spotlight.<\/p>\n

Lyonne was arrested for DUI in 2001, beginning a string of headline-making behavior, including being charged in 2004 with criminal mischief, harassment and trespassing for storming into a neighboring unit and threatening to molest the neighbors’ dog. In 2005, she ended up in intensive care with a collapsed lung and suffering from hepatitis C. She spent most of that summer hospitalized, with her health issues and sobriety taking priority over Hollywood. <\/p>\n

“Listen, I did not think I was coming back,” Lyonne told Entertainment Weekly<\/em> in 2012. “So I didn’t really care. When you go as deep into the belly of the beast as I went, there’s a whole other world going on and something like show business becomes the dumbest thing on planet Earth.”<\/p>\n

But Lyonne, now 40, made her comeback in a major way, playing a locked-up drug dealer in Netflix’s hit Orange Is the New Black<\/em>, joking to Out<\/em>, “What was great was how little research I had to do for the role!” she cracked. “Who’d have thought all those arrests would have been so terrific for my career?”<\/p>\n

And she was just getting started, as Lyonne recently earned rave reviews for her Netflix series Russian Doll<\/em>, which she co-created (along with Amy Poehler<\/strong>) and starred in. The hit show, which was renewed for a second season, was “so personal” for Lyonne, who told Elle<\/a><\/em>, “My family’s story, my years through the ringer of being at death’s door and addiction, and the experience of being a weirdo and an outsider in New York and in this business. There’s always the fear when you’re digging that deep and exposing that much about yourself.”<\/p>\n

In an interview with Variety, Lyonne, who has been dating Fred Armisen<\/strong> for over five years, said, “I’m finally so relaxed…I’m thrilled to be older\u2014I’m thrilled to be done with being a child actor or a teenage actor or a round two, comeback actor. I’m so glad there are so many battles I’ve done in this industry that are now over, and I think I just feel such a relief and, in an artistic community, I think I feel really, deeply moved and supported.”<\/p>\n

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Somewhat of an indie darling, American Pie was Lyonne’s first major blockbuster, thrusting her into the spotlight. Lyonne was arrested for DUI in 2001, beginning a string of headline-making behavior, including being charged in 2004 with criminal mischief, harassment and trespassing for storming into a neighboring unit and threatening to molest the neighbors’ dog. In 2005, she ended […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 11:32:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}