The reason why she flew the coop is because she doesn’t WANT to go back to the dry-out clinic again. It didn’t take the first go-around. She loves the bottle more than she loves herself or her family.
Just came on the radio. They found Ophelia at another hotel, but she refuses to come back to Memphis with her brother Joe.
If she is as frail as she claims, why doesn’t Joe, who is a big healthy man, just pick her up and put her in the car and head down I40 to home?