Jamie Lee Curtis has been preparing to leave Hollywood for decades. "I witnessed my parents lose the very thing that gave them their fame and their life and their livelihood, when the industry rejected them at a certain age," Curtis, 66, told The Guardian in an interview published on Saturday, July 26. "I watched them reach incredible success and then have it slowly erode to where it was gone," she continued. "And that's very painful. As a result of her parent's difficult experience in an industry notorious for ageism, Curtis admitted that she has been low-key "self-retiring for 30 years.