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I found a new sponsor; one with less interest in squeezing my thigh and referring to our meetings as “dates”. I found online meetings, plugged in to women-only groups with recovering alcoholics from around the world from the comfort of my garden chair or burrowed beneath my duvet. The convenience of being dialled into group chats with strangers, avoiding the glances or trying to place where we may have run into each other before, worked for me. I made it my mission to “grow up and show up”, having previously had a reputation for being flaky, late and unreliable. I am a better mother for my sobriety – making all of my son’s school plays, assemblies and meetings in the last year. We spend far more quality time together now, and the little boy who was at times anxious, awkward and painfully shy is flourishing under the warmth of genuine maternal attention and time spent doing not much at all. I always feared motherhood; growing up in a household where foster children came and went in a revolving door of trauma and disarray, I was continually petrified that I would never be able to be a proper mother to my son. Aged 16 she moved out and her sister Kelly said in a podcast in 2021: "We're just really different. She doesn't understand me and I don't understand her." I have gained literally hundreds of hours of time over the last year; where before I would spend my evenings drunk and my mornings in a fog of headache and nausea, now I go to bed early with crime novels or lengthy world war tomes about double-crossing agents, cold cases, or other similar genres. Another person commented: “I am in a puddle of tears. I am so grateful for you. I am beyond proud of the man and father I have watched you become. Without your sobriety, there would most likely not be my sobriety.”
Sharon: I learned about it when Elizabeth Taylor went to Betty Ford Center. And that was exactly 36 years ago. Ozzy: All I can say is, I’m 72 years of age. Most of the people that I drank with are dead. And the ones that aren’t, that still continue to drink, are going to be dead soon. It’s not a happy ending. If you want to carry on drinking, my hat goes off to you. Sharon, did you ever think that Ozzy would get it? He revealed to People: “It’s a part of my life. I got sober at 17 and … it’s a long time. I chose to kind of commit myself to living life sober. Louise told the Sunday Mercury: “We want to put it behind us and move on with our lives. I don’t really want to comment any further.” Read More Related ArticlesMuch of my alcoholism was rooted in extreme loneliness; and I have found that since choosing to be more present, I have made new friendships and nurtured old ones. Ozzy: She said to me, “I found this place where they teach you to drink properly. It’s called the Betty Ford Center.” And I went, “That’s it. I’ve been doing it wrong.”
Addiction issues hit Kelly hard as she revealed she became dependant on opioid painkiller Vicodin aged 13 after she had her tonsils taken out. Sharon: I knew nothing about alcoholism. Nothing. I had worked with a lot of musicians, a lot of actors. And I just thought that’s how people are when they drink. I just thought, “OK. They just like to drink.” That was it. I understood nothing about the “-ism.” And when did you learn about the “-ism”?
Ozzy’s eldest son from his first marriage to Thelma Riley became a DJ in Ibiza and had his own record label with his actress wife Louise. Afterward, he humbly detailed many of his successes and failures over the last two decades, from meeting “some of the most interesting people alive” and becoming “a cop and an EMT” to creating (and subsequently losing) “tons of tv shows.”
She was also heavily fat shamed and progressed to heroin and would mix it up with amphetamines, tranquillisers, cannabis and alcohol at her worst. For people who are new just trust me and give this your all. It leads to so many wonderful things but also teaches you how to deal when it isn’t wonderful. Thank you to my sober brothers and sisters. Thank you to my family. Thank you Aree. Thank you to my girls. And thank you to my friends (you know who you are). He has posted about addiction and his road to recovery and every day is adamant he’s another day clean. His behaviour is bizarre, he’s literally just on a live dancing and not looking too well! He did posts in the week begging someone to send him money so he could buy electricity even though he’d also said that he lived witn parents and people were questioning lights being on etc. the posts were very erratic and he was saying how if people don’t send him money then he will stop doing Tik toks… hun no one asked you to do them!!
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