Home and Away star Tammin Sursok reveals the terrifying moment she thought she was going to die

Australian actress Tammin Sursok has spoken about the harrowing experience she had with marijuana.

The former Home and Away, 41, star revealed on the Mentally like everyone else podcast that she once feared for her life after smoking a joint.

She admitted that she first tried the drug nearly two decades ago while in Los Angeles — and that the experience did not go well.

“I tried marijuana once and drove to the hospital because I thought I was dead,” Tammin admitted.

‘I called my mother and thought, ‘I’m stuck between life and death, as if time has stood still.’

She added that her long journey to hospital was scuttled when she was overcome with fatigue and suffered from the ‘munchies’.

“I drove myself to the hospital really slowly, like I was going six miles an hour, I swear to God,” she admitted.

‘It was just around the corner, so I thought I could get there. I pulled into the visitor parking lot, fell asleep, and then ordered a pizza from my car.

‘So strange. Then I thought: this is the worst drug ever, this is not for me.’

Tammin rose to fame at the age of 15 playing Dani Sutherland in Home and Away, and has also been open about her struggles with mental health, including her bulimia.

Tammin, who is very active on social media, went on to say that posting on Instagram, for example, was “mentally exhausting.”

“For me, social media hasn’t been great for my mental health because if I don’t get a million views every few videos, I feel like all is lost. It’s really tiring and mentally exhausting

Elsewhere in the podcast, Tammin revealed that she faced “minor” sexual misconduct growing up in the entertainment industry.

Tammin – who did not specify which projects the abuse took place on – revealed that behavior by predatory men was seen as normal in the industry.

“When the Me Too movement came out, I thought, ‘I’m so lucky, sexual abuse has never happened to me,’” the 41-year-old said.

“But then I look at these microdoses of sexual abuse and I think, ‘Oh my gosh, there were so many things said or something, I was overly sexualized.'”

Tammin says she had to deal with an older man who “said some extremely inappropriate things to me when I was 15 and 16 years old.”

Another experience involved a man showing her a nude photo of himself while she was doing her makeup.

“There was just little underground hidden things that were, I guess, kind of little abuse, but I didn’t really know it at the time because it was kind of normalized,” she said, adding that she believed the behavior was “okay ‘was. ‘ at the time.

“When I look at it, I think I was actually very lucky to come out so unscathed, but there was still a lot of stuff.”

Tammin explained that she will discuss the experiences in her first memoir, which will be published in 2025.

“This is truly a dream come true as I have been writing essays and excerpts about my life for almost a decade,” Tammin explained.

“It’s very surreal that these insights into my past are now turning into a book,” she continued.

‘There is already a lot that I have opened up about, but there is still so much more to discover. Thanks to Pantera Press for joining forces with me. Watch this space’.

Tammin has always been open about her struggles in the industry and previously discussed her battle with her body imageadmitting that as a young girl she “wanted to be wanted, wanted to be desired” and struggled with an eating disorder.

In her honor, she posted a series of heartbreaking stories on her Instagram International Women’s Daythe actress reflected on the devastating consequences she experienced when she was objectified by men.

The first story she shared was about a young boy she had a crush on who told her at age 15 that she needed to lose weight.

She revealed she was ‘paralyzed by fear and lust’ when he approached her and said: ‘My heart stood still. I’ve been daydreaming for years that this moment would come.’

But her dream came crashing down when the boy rudely told her, “You have to go to Jenny Craig [weight loss program].’

Tammin continued with her next story, recounting a time when she lost up to 100 pounds by forcing herself to throw up after a meal.

“I had been ramming my cracked and raw knuckles down my throat for the past forty minutes. I knew this routine well. “I had become an expert at lying,” she said.

‘I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and saw my eyes; it looked like they were bleeding. I smiled weakly at my reflection. I weighed 45 kilos, I thought, now people would love me.’

Finally, Sursok told the story of the 30-year-old man she dated at age 21 and who she let her body make fun of because “I was taught in school that boys who like you will make fun of you.”

Tammin lives in Nashville with husband Sean McEwen and their two daughters, nine-year-old Phoenix and four-year-old Lennon.

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