1 year sober (my addiction story) - ep. 2

Let's start off when I was a child.

Alcohol has always played a very big role in my life.

I didn't have alcohol too much in the house growing up.

Neither of my parents I would qualify as alcoholics.

They drank socially, but it was never a problem that I faced growing up.

I know that addiction runs in my family, but it wasn't in my immediate family.

Growing up as a small child, there was here or there.

I would try a sip of someone's cocktail at like a house party that we were...

Not even a house party.

That sounds like we were throwing ragers at our house when I was growing up.

We were not.

When my parents had friends over, I might try a sip of a cocktail here or there.

Nothing crazy.

And then I started...

Oh, did you hear the

voice shake? Did you hear the nerves coming to the surface?

Yeah.

My first drink that I ever had was when I was, I

believe, 14 or 15 years old.

And this is my first like actual drink aside from tasting alcohol sipper there.

I mean, I'm not going to count my first communion.

So I was about 14 or 15 years old.

I was with my best friend at the time, and we were at her older sister's house.

And her older sister, being the cool older sister that she was, gave us a Mike's Harder lemonade, and we split it.

And then her mom came and chewed out the older sister as she does.