Read entire "Beating Addictions: Faces of Hope" transcript at CNN.com. Larry King interviews: Ann Richards, Evangelist Jim Bakker, Actor/comedian Tom Arnold, Actress Jamie Lee Curtis, Pat Summerall, and Joseph Califano.

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KING: Tom Arnold, you did both drugs and alcohol and cocaine. 

TOM ARNOLD, ACTOR: Did it all, Larry. Did it all.

KING: Do you know why? 

ARNOLD: I liked it. I liked it a lot. I started drinking when I was 14. And I got drunk the first time I did it. And I felt like a different person, and I liked it. Then I moved on, of course, later years, to cocaine, and really liked that, too. And it just made me feel really good about myself. I thought it made me feel like a different person. 

KING: Did you know you were addicted? 

ARNOLD: I didn't know until later. My mother was an alcoholic. She died of the disease, but we didn't really -- back in Iowa, we didn't really talk about -- I never heard term "alcoholic." Maybe from Betty Ford on TV, but we -- I knew I got arrested a lot. I knew I blacked out a lot and I did humiliating things. 

KING: You didn't say to yourself, I have a problem. 

ARNOLD: I would say it when I was sitting in jail, oh, this is bad. But then I'd be back at it the next night. You know, Dad would bail me out and I'd be putting my clothes on and I'd be back out. 

KING: Because you liked it that much, it did so much for you, that the jail -- it overcame the fact you might be in jail again. 

ARNOLD: Yeah, seven times, and, then with cocaine, the same thing. Cocaine obviously is a bigger risk too, because it is illegal. 

KING: How did you stop -- Tom Arnold? 

ARNOLD: Well, I had -- it took me a while. It took me about three years to stop. I stopped for a month and then I'd get back on, I'd stop for a month. 

I went to rehab and talked my way out the first time, and I think what really got me to stop was I had to lose a lot. I lost my fiancée at the time, where I lived, my job -- and that got me into my final rehab 11 1/2 years ago. But the reason I don't do it today is because after I was there about eight days, I went back to get -- you know, I was in the tabloids. I went back so that people would think I was a good guy, my soon-to-be-ex-wife would love me again, all this stuff. 

But on my eighth day there I started feeling good physiologically, which -- every other time I felt good like that I said, oh, I better get some more coke. But this time I thought, well, wait a minute, I feel good, and maybe I deserve to feel good. And that's the only reason I'm sober today. 

KING: So you've been sober how long? 

ARNOLD: Eleven and a half years.