Samuel L Jackson has revealed that winning battle with drugs and alcohol has helped him reach where he is today. The 64-year-old actor told the Mirror that he believes those days preserved him in a strange sort of way. He asserted that all experiences culminate in making a person, who he/she is. Jackson – a veteran of more than 140 films – confessed that he even performed on stage and screen, when he was high but no one noticed. However, when his wife and daughter found him unconscious on the kitchen floor, a wrap of cocaine at his side, he knew that he had taken himself dangerously close to the edge.