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The recent case of Ted Haggard, an leader of the evangelical movement in the United States, in which it was revealed that he was not only a drug addict, but also was committing adultery on his wife with a male prostitute, has shocked everyone. Actress Heather Graham ("Bobby," "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me") says she feels the pain of an addict in her new film "Broken."

"I can identify with the desire to do something even though you know you'll destroy yourself," she said in an interview with Hollywood Today (hollywoodtoday.net) after the world premiere of the film "Broken" at the 2006 AFI Fest in Los Angeles. Graham plays Hope, a waitress and would-be musician from the Midwest who comes to the West Coast to find stardom just too elusive. The influence of love and a bad boyfriend frustrate Graham's character, who slowly slides into drugs. She is frustrated with everyone else's success the way only an addict can be.

So does director Alan White. "I know on a personal level the journey of an addict and finding yourself at the end." Co-star Jeremy Sisto said he was also too aware of "people using heroin to fill the void." His character, Will, goes from crazy to dangerous as his addiction to Graham kicks in, who has left him in a slippery effort to go straight from both the smack and the destructive, co-dependent relationship.