 She is close friends with actress Sigourney Weaver, but in a 2015 interview said she has never watched Weaver's film "Alien" in its entirety because she was too scared by it.Curtis is a recovering alcoholic, and was once addicted to painkillers that she began using after a routine cosmetic surgical procedure.She became sober from opiates in 1999 after reading and relating to Tom Chiarella’s account of addiction; and maintains that recovery is the greatest achievement of her life.