Dry for 4 years - that’s great. I hope that she can keep with it.
If I’m not mistaken, she left Fox and started at CNN or MSNBC the week of 9/11/01. It was odd to see her on a different network.
One Day at a Time!
Good for Laurie. Now she can help many others who have the same addiction.
She is a brave and beautiful person.
Is there a Mr. Dhue?...Seriously though, good luck Laurie. When the going gets tough, the tough get going...Call me!
Wow. I would have never guessed. I wish her the best of luck in her continuing recovery.
Ha ha! Now she “can pick and choose who she goes out with”... No more drunken one night stands!
For we alcoholics next to sobriety , our anonymity is our most treasured possession, ever reminding us to place principals before personalities and that it’s important for us to maintain that anonymity at the level of press, radio(and tv) and films so that we may carry the message to the still suffering alcoholic since experience shows that discovery might make the still suffering alcoholic shy away from treatment. I guess Ms. Dhue feels otherwise.
One brother had to stop completely because he was not able to walk away after a shot or two...one drink turned into pissing in a phone booth.
My other brother is the same but hasn't stopped.
Of the four of us I was the only one who could take it or leave it. During my forties and much of my fifties I genuinely enjoyed drinking (single malts only). As I got into the second half of my fifties it became less enjoyable so I just pretty much stopped. It took no effort and I still drink when the moment calls for it but if nothing's going on I don't even think about pouring. I liked my drinking days but they're over.
Great to hear that she’s getting help, although I tire of alcohol dependence being referred to as a “disease”.
She turns 42 tomorrow and she gave herself the best present: sobriety. She is intelligent and beautiful. I wish her the best of luck and hope she has family and friends to support her during this trying time.
Alcohol, Prozac, Paxil, nobody wants to talk of the underlying causes. I’m here to tell you that I just skipped a meeting of a “men’s group” at my local HMO, $7 co-payment, where two of the regular participants have been going and whining for over two years (I attended 4 weekly meetings myself), and for all I can tell, nothing in their lives has changed, just as nothing has changed in my own miserable existence, alcohol or no alcohol, Prozac, Paxil, men’s group, vitamin B12, fish oil supplements. And so, this evening I drank most of another bottle of BV Riesling instead. Good luck and God bless you all.
Good luck to her as well. I would imagine given her figure it wouldn’t take alot of alcohol to effect her. Maybe she got enticed by the same Atlanta nightlife that once appealed to Steve Bartkowski & Brett Farve.
Laurie,
Give me a call. I can keep you preoccupied, and you won’t have time to think about getting drunk.
PhiloBedo
Holy crap. She was, and probably is, so amazingly beautiful, but I know this struggle, this journey-of-recovery, so very well.
Evidently the "Private Prayer Breakfast" wasn't so private after all..........that "reporter" needs an ass whipping.
Best regards to Laurie.
Goodness gracious, where have I been? I just learned of this tonight as she was a guest on Geraldo’s show.