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it wasn't until the last 10 days that I finally said, 'Oh snap, I'm an addict,'' Dash said. She said she even took to taking Vicodin before television appearances.Įventually, Dash said reached out to her sister and her attorney who put an intervention into action and sent her on a plane to Utah for rehabilitation. Related: Shepard and wife Kristen Bell share two daughters, Lincoln, 8, and Delta, 6. Dash's two children, who are now adults, were shielded from what was going on and doctors warned her she had to stop her addiction or she would die.

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'It's not just the acute episode that can take your life, it's the effects of chronic abuse,' he said.ĭash said her opioid addiction nearly killed her, causing her kidneys to shut down before she was rushed to a hospital for a full blood transfusion. Oz explained how risky her addiction was, noting that many of her vital organs would have been affected. Related: The actor has previously spoken about how a prescription for pain killers after a minor plastic surgery led to a 10-year opioid addiction.ĭr. 'I lost everything,' she said, revealing that she spent between $5,000 to $10,000 a month on pills.

'I was taking 18 to 20 pills a day,' she said of her Vicodin habit. A stark realizationĭash said she became addicted to Vicodin after she was prescribed the painkillers while getting treatment for uterine fibroids, which were very painful. Related: Doctors at West Virginia University’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute are testing the experimental procedure on addicts for whom other treatments didn't work. And for people who are not addicts, I would ask them to please look at people with more compassion and empathy, understanding, because they need help. There is no shame in getting help because that's what we need. She added, 'I feel like telling my story, letting people know that there is no shame in being an addict. 'But I know what it feels like to be jonesing. It kills me to drive past the tent cities and see these young kids asking for money so they can get a fix,' she said. Oz that it was the pandemic that spurred her to share her story because she could see so much pain and darkness in people. But, after that, choices I made are my own, who I became is me. when you're a child, OK, you might be a victim. 'Yeah, there were things that happened to me at a young age. A desire to changeĪlthough her family life was unstable, Dash made it clear that she doesn't want people thinking she's a victim. After that, she left home to live with her godfather, who she said was also a drug addict, and began to pursue her own dreams. 'I was a very angry, angry teenager,' she said.ĭash credited a friend for saving her life after they showed up at her house and drove her to the emergency room.

She said the memories of her childhood trauma didn't reveal themselves until she was 17 when she tried to end her life. 'Instead, for my Sweet 16, she gave me my first line of cocaine.' 'That was pretty terrible and that was something that I had to later deal with, and I'm so happy that I did,' Dash said.ĭash said that she was a straight-A student and was accepted to the Dance Theatre of Harlem, but that her mom wouldn't attend. She explained she stayed mostly in the care of babysitters when she was young and also revealed that she was sexually molested when she was 4.

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Oz that her father was a heroin addict and while she doesn't know if her mom used heroin, she knows she smoked crack and used cocaine.

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