'Curly Sue' star Alisan Porter reveals she's an alcoholic

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Former child star Alisan Porter revealed on her blog Thursday that she is an alcoholic.

Porter, 33, rose to fame at the tender age of 10 after portraying the title character in the 1991 comedy Curly Sue.

"Bet you didn't see that one coming. Or, because you know that I'm a former child star, you totally did. Anyway, it's the truth," the actress wrote on her website, Lil' Mamas. "I've been sober since Oct 28th, 2007 and I haven't touched a drink or a drug since."

But even after seven years of sobriety, marriage and two children, Porter revealed that her struggles with addiction are far from being over.

"I don't drink because I don't want to miss one second of the responsibilities I get to have today. I don't drink because I can't. I want to, a lot of days, because I'm human and because life gets hard. But I don't. Sobriety offered me everything I ever wanted and never got," she said.

In a fictional account of what she believes would happen if she drank a glass of wine she said: "I'm a mom now! Moms drink wine!" Porter concluded that, "Thank god I didn't drink the wine."

"I will miss out on getting wasted with my mom friends and barfing all over the strip on some crazy girls trip to Las Vegas," she wrote. "I wont get to go wine tasting in Napa. I won't get to eat a marijuana olive oil infused stir-fry or trip balls at Coachella. I've lost that privilege in this lifetime. But every day that I wake up to my kids clear as a bell and ready to take on another day in this new skin, I am grateful. It's a high like no other and it only comes from me and the Universe that provides for me."