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"My parents never understood my motives for admitting myself inpatient. However, from hundreds of miles away, Grandma Bevy repeated over the phone, 'I’m proud of you.'"
"I always made sure to look the part of a smart, together, confident young woman. People who wear glasses and pantyhose don’t do meth, right?"
"For me, smoking was a saviour."
"I just remember him being so kind.”
Perry knew what it meant to be caught in the riptide of the disease.
"The best thing about me, bar none, is that if somebody comes to me and says, ‘I can’t stop drinking, can you help me?’ I can say ‘yes’ and follow up and do it."
“Taking drugs is one thing, but does it start taking you?” he wondered to Apple Music's Zane Lowe.
"I started sending money home instead of visiting and avoided her phone calls; when I said 'I love you' it felt like a lie."
"If I was being honest with myself, I knew the ugliness of my relationship."
“It’s been worth every second,” she said of her sobriety. “I just don’t know what it would take for me to give it up. I’m stable. I’m calmer.”