Following her brief appearance on Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, Tara Reid is talking openly about how her life has altered positively.
“I think that a lot of fans have been much nicer,” the American Pie star, 47, said to TMZ on Thursday, October 12. “Sometimes I read what some of the quotes are from fans and it makes me cry because it’s been so kind and nice.”
Reid said she has heard comments from admirers such, “You did so good,” “Just keep up the strength,” and “You did the best you could and don’t give up on yourself.”
“So a lot of people came out, and it feels really good to feel that love,” she confesssed.
On the second day of training, the Josie and the Pussycats actress left the Fox competition show, but she only had good things to say about her time there.
“I did enjoy the show,” she said. “I enjoyed the cast and everything about it. It made me a tougher person, and it really was a great show to be on.”
Reid noted that she had “a lot more inner strength” than she had realised and that if given more time to prepare, she would think about returning to the show.
“I only got the show three days before we did it,” she explained. “So a lot of people had, like, six months to work on it, and I had three.”
Reid’s quest had already gotten off to a difficult start when the second season of the show began. After the team’s first task, the Ghosts alum tried to smuggle in a pack of smokes but was caught and told to stop. She gave Reid two packs of smokes but Reid was astonished to find a third pack of cigarettes in her pocket and said she “didn’t know it was in there,”
Reid stated that she wanted to “have stronger skin and not allow people bother me so much” and likened herself to a “broken bird.”
“I get bullied a lot and stuff, and I just wanted to make myself a stronger person, and I thought this could help. Everyone says, ‘She got so old looking, she looks bad, she looks like s—t.’ And just this s—t that goes on social media and stuff like that,” she said.
Reid has been open and honest about her battles with addiction throughout the years. Reid sought treatment in 2008 and finished a 60-day programme.
“I didn’t like the person I was. I was sad and conflicted,” she said to In Touch in 2014. “I went there by myself. I put myself there. It was the greatest decision I ever made. Rehab saved my life.”