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Jaimie Alexander<\/strong><\/a> is opening up about her sobriety and the near death experience that started it. <\/p>\n The 41-year-old Thor: Love and Thunder<\/em> actress shared in a new Substack post that she realized she had a drinking problem while on a trip with a romantic partner shortly before her appendix burst.<\/p>\n Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In her post<\/a>, Jaimie<\/strong> shared how she and this guy she was in a \u201crelatively new relationship\u201d with went to go look at some properties outside of NYC and they got snowed in. <\/p>\n One thing she said was not in the Airbnb they rented was alcohol, and she was panicking about how she was going to survive the night without a drink, having not had a single sober day in years prior. Also, this guy was completely sober. <\/p>\n They were able to make it back to the city the next day, and while she couldn\u2019t wait to have a drink, she started to feel dizzy \u201cin a way that felt dangerous\u201d after getting home that night. <\/p>\n Jaimie<\/strong> noted how she tried to ignore her intuition and have a drink anyway, she just couldn\u2019t bring herself to drink and went to bed. <\/p>\n The next morning when she woke up for work, she went about her day as normal, but as the day went on, she started \u201cfeeling irritable and unsteady.\u201d That night, she tried to workout and halfway through her trainer told her she was off balance and looked even more pale than usual. <\/p>\n When she got home, she tried to drink again before bed but couldn\u2019t and went to sleep. The next morning, however, she felt worse, now with a stomach ache lingering, but continued on with her routine. <\/p>\n She asked the on-set nurse for Tums to help, and when that didn\u2019t work, the nurse tried to massage her stomach, but that also did not help. However, they tried the tums and massaging for hours after, but by lunch time, she could no longer stand up and the pain had spread. <\/p>\n A doctor was then called and she recalled him \u201casking me if I had ovarian cysts, implying a possible rupture,\u201d to which she replied no. She was then driven to her OB-GYN office, which was close by and \u201cthat\u2019s when the contractions started,\u201d and she was experiencing the worst pain she\u2019s ever had. <\/p>\n Her doctor figured out what was wrong, and told her driver to rush her to the nearest hospital. <\/p>\n \u201cYour appendix is rupturing. If they don\u2019t remove it right away, I\u2019ll come do it myself,\u201d she recalled him saying. <\/p>\n Jaimie <\/strong>then went on to detail her experience in the hospital, with them telling her that her appendix fully ruptured and she was entering sepsis, needing emergency surgery. <\/p>\n She recalled thinking she knew she was dying and not feeling afraid of that anymore, followed by hearing a voice and having a conversation with that voice about whether she felt like she was ready to die or not. <\/p>\n This led to her telling the voice that she thinks she\u2019s supposed to stay but there\u2019s something else she has to do. The voice told her, \u201cThen you can never drink again.\u201d <\/p>\n After this, she had a moment of clarity and felt joy about really coming to terms with her alcoholism, and promised she would never drink again. <\/p>\n Jaimie <\/strong>recalls only spending five days in the hospital after surgery and once she was able to walk well enough, asked if her new boyfriend could help with her sobriety and he suggested going to a meeting. <\/p>\n She notes how what she thought was the worst thing to happen to her turned out to be the best thing, and it was \u201cexactly what I needed to become aware of how I was living and what I needed to do to change so that I could have a shot at reaching my full potential.\u201d<\/p>\n Since then, she has been completely sober and closed her post by sharing that if you\u2019re in a rough spot, you don\u2019t have to go through it alone. <\/p>\n You can read Jaimie<\/strong>\u2018s full post HERE<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n