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Helen Hunt’s coping mechanism: ‘Usually I’m Stoned’

For seven years, actress Helen Hunt kept millions of Americans laughing as the lovable Jamie Stemple Buchman on the hit NBC sitcom “Mad About You,” and it seems the 38-year-old still has a wry sense of humor when it comes to sharing her secret for keeping sane in the hectic world of Hollywood, FOXNews.com reported Tuesday.

“Usually I’m stoned, even right now I’m stoned, I’m barely here,” she joked while promoting her upcoming drama “Every Day” in Los Angeles.

“No, I just do the best I can and am grateful for my life,” she added.

Hunt plays Jeannie, a woman struggling to keep her life and family together in Richard Levine’s “Every Day.” Cracks in her marriage to college sweetheart Ned (Liev Schreiber) begin to surface as she tends to her estranged, ailing father who moves into the family home. Making things harder, Hunt’s character is trying to raise two boys, one who is gay and trying to find his own feet, all while attempting to resurrect her “non-existent career.”

But away from movie sets, Hunt is pretty confident she knows just how to balance both the professional and personal aspects of her life.

“I’ve made choices that work with my family. I want to work and I want to be with my family so I just walk the tight-rope of showing up for both those things,” she said.

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