Jennifer's second act - 'I SABOTAGED MYSELF'

The White Lotus star isn't going to make the same mistakes with her career or men

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At 63, Jennifer Coolidge finally feels like she's come of age. And after finding fame in Hollywood once before - only to lose it all - The White Lotus star has no intention of letting success slip through her fingers a second time!

“It was this incredible wave and my surfboard was there, and I got on. Then I got off,” recalls Jennifer of the seven years she spent riding high in Tinseltown after her scene-stealing breakthrough role as “Stifler’s mom” in 1999’s American Pie.

With follow-up parts in Zoolander and Legally Blonde, it seemed she’d cemented her place in Hollywood, but it all evaporated in 2006 – and she knows exactly how it all went wrong.

“I sabotaged myself,” admits Jennifer. “I dilly-dallied. I wanted this guy that I was obsessed with. I wanted him to like me, so I went completely off-track. I wasted a lot of time and that moment passes. And God, if I could live my life over again, I wouldn’t have done what I did.

“Actually, I don’t want to say it was just one guy. It was guys. And, well, everyone wants certain isn't going to make the same mistakes with her career or men things in their life at a certain time. I was trying to have relationships with men who were unavailable.