More than a decade ago, Joanna “JoJo” Levesque began fighting a private battle.
The singer, who rose to fame as a teen in the early aughts with singles such as “Leave (Get Out)” and “Too Little Too Late,” details in her new memoir struggling with addictions to alcohol and the prescription drugs Adderall, a stimulant, and the anti-anxiety medication Xanax.
In 2023, as she was finishing her book, she decided to attend an AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) meeting with a friend.
“I was just feeling like I needed a sense of community and home,” JoJo, 33, told People in comments published Sept. 17, the day her book Over the Influence was released. “I felt far away from myself, and that has been a touchstone for me since I was young.”
The Aquamarine actress—who added she is not sober today, per the magazine—wrote in her memoir that both of her parents had also battled addiction and had actually met in AA. JoJo also noted that one of her earliest childhood memories, from when she was a toddler, was of her accompanying her mother to an AA meeting.