Seven days in the past, actuality star Courtney Stodden took to Instagram to share an replace.
Alongside a photo of herself inebriated, Stodden shared her resolution to get sober, including that she went “backwards and forwards about posting” her journey publicly on social media.
“However my life has all the time been so public and it is a huge a part of my therapeutic,” Stodden mentioned, explaining her resolution to go public along with her sober journey.
“Alcohol, I’m breaking apart with you,” she continued. “It’s been a poisonous relationship for years. One thing I used to cope, to escape, to survive. Nevertheless it’s damage me greater than it’s ever helped me—publicly and privately.”
“Final evening was the final time,” Stodden wrote on Tuesday, July 15. “I’m accomplished letting it management me. I’m accomplished feeling sick and ashamed. I would like to be absolutely current in my life. I would like to face my previous, my trauma, and my present actuality with clear eyes and actual energy.”
“To those that perceive this battle—thanks. Please respect my house as I stroll this new path. It’s not simple, but it surely’s mandatory.”
Stodden went on to share a tearfully emotional video 72 hours later.
With tears in her eyes, the now 30-year-old who gained notoriety as an adolescent when she married then-51-year-old actor Doug Hutchinson, that when she was 16 years previous, “I used to be positioned right into a world that I wasn’t prepared for.”
“Doug, my 51-year-old husband, he drank, and he taught me how to drink and when he would drink bottles and bottles and bottles and bottles of alcohol, he would abuse me,” she claimed within the video. “And so I began consuming.”
“That is the third day,” she mentioned of her sober journey, “and I’m very emotional. I’m like, getting stress hives as a result of I feel I’m like, realizing lots of issues that have been…I feel that is gonna occur. Does this occur?”
Stodden later within the video mirrored on her relationships with buddies that seemingly rely upon alcohol and the way her resolution to get sober will have an effect on these friendships.
Individuals, who perceive what Stodden goes by, took to the remark part to cheer her on, encouraging her to proceed her journey.
“You’re doing so properly, mama! Day 5 is the turning level. You are able to do this!!!! I’m so unbelievably happy with you,” one remark learn.
“Hey babe you bought this. It will get higher and higher after which blissful! I promise! Dropping consuming buddies is a part of it. Doesn’t imply they don’t care or that you simply by no means communicate to them once more, however y’all might have totally different priorities and develop aside. Individuals get bizarre as a result of it forces them to have to take a look at their very own relationship with alcohol. It doesn’t even have something to do with you, so don’t take it personally. You’re gonna be okay! Dangle in there bb!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 ps you’re breaking out cuz you’re detoxing however you’ll be glowing very quickly 🩷💋,” one other remark added.
“You’ve received this. Sober buddies are one of the best and there are such a lot of of us! I’m virtually at 4 years and began at 14, the primary few days are arduous, the primary few weeks are arduous however then all of it retains getting higher. It’s so overwhelming to have a transparent head, it’s like watching a film of your life over again. Sort of appears like an out of physique expertise however processing all of it will get simpler, I swear and I promise. I’m all the time right here in case you want to speak and I’m so happy with you however on your honesty and braveness,” wrote one other buddy.
Then on Tuesday, July 22, Stodden gave a one week update.
Alongside a photograph of herself in a mirror, Stodden celebrated being one week sober. “1 week no alcohol! 🥹🩵 Week 2… I’m coming for you 💪🏻 #therapeutic.”
The identical day Stodden introduced she was getting sober, The Hollywood Reporter introduced that her story could be included in Lifetime’s “Ripped From the Headlines” movies.
The mission, narrated by Stodden herself, is at the moment anticipated to premiere in September, in accordance to The Hollywood Reporter.
In response to the information, Stodden thanked the individuals who “labored arduous on this very emotional and at instances, difficult mission.”
