I Spent 10 Years In New York

I Think That There Are Many Different Ways Of Getting And Staying Sober. Like Religion, I Just Don't Think That One Way Is The Only Way.

To Actually Be Allowed To Be Beautiful Is A Total First For Me.

I Think It Became Blurry Because I Grew Up In A Very Private Family. I Mixed Privacy And Secrecy Up Somewhere Along The Line. Everything Became A Secret, And I Thought That Was How You Should Live. Lying About Everything. The Mask I Put On As A Kid To Survive Was The Funny Lady. Then The Funny Person All Of A Sudden Became Harder To Do Without Substances. Substances Let Me Keep The Mask On Longer. Until It Doesn't Work Anymore And You're Just A Mess.

Yes, Creative People Are More Prone To Addiction Or Addictive Behavior. But, Equally As Prone Is Your Mailman, Your Mother, Your Brother, Your Friend, The Guy Who Does Your Banking. It's Everywhere. The Thing That Happens In The Press Sometimes Is Whitney Houston. She Was Just An Addict. Just Like Your Uncle Steve.

Right Now One In Three Teenagers Meets The Medical Criteria For Addiction, Which Is Scary. I'm So Driven Because When I Walked Into Rehab, I Was Like, "am I Still Drunk? Did The Guys Give Me The Wrong Address? Am I At A Summer Camp?" And It Kills Them. Deaths Attributed To Drugs And Alcohol Have Overtaken All Other Emergency-room Deaths.