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I hope I'm not piling on with more comment.
But some "stray voltage" hit me today and realized that The Freeper Friend
might want to look at the case of Dominick Dunne...good interview with
a bit of cursing at:
http://www.janmag.com/profiles/ddunne.html

IIRC, I saw Dunne in an interview talking about his low-period when
he spent six months alone in Oregon kicking booze and drugs.
He said that one of his prize possessions was a letter from Truman
Capote that said how awed he was at Dunne's courage at having the
strength to make a decision to get sober and to stick to it.
And Dunne said he was still sad that Capote couldn't find the strength
to do the same (Capote died of complications from alcoholism).
So, there's a story of someone who was even a high-flier who had to
transit a deep valley before coming back and climbing to new heights.

Hope that's not too much moralizing. I guess I'm biased as a junky for
Dunne's tales of rich people behaving very badly!