Jason Biggs says wife Jenny Mollen's pregnancy was the wake-up call to sobriety

Jason Biggs credited his wife, Jenny Mollen, as the "wake-up call" that led him to get sober. The 47-year-old actor, who has been sober since 2017, made the remarks on The View on Friday, Jan. 30, while promoting Untitled Home Invasion Romance, his first film as director. The topic arose after Sunny Hostin congratulated him on being eight years sober and asked when he realized it was time to change.

Biggs said, "It’s something I am really proud of, and it’s certainly been difficult," and added, "I think for me, I just couldn’t stop thinking about it." He described how his situation was not the lowest imaginable — "my bottom wasn’t in the basement, at least in terms that I wasn’t arrested, I didn’t hurt — well, there’s damage, but not the kind you can read about, certainly" — but said the issue was his "obsession." "The snakes in my head, they just never went away and they kept getting worse and worse and worse and it becomes all consuming and I couldn’t be present and I couldn’t be focused.

It was a clear issue," he said. "And then when Jenny got pregnant, that was sort of a wake-up call for me." Biggs, who married Mollen in 2008, discussed motivations for getting sober: "They say you got to get sober for yourself.

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