Brooke Schofield

And I feel like my experience has been like the more I've grown up, the more it's like hurt me and upset me.

I don't think it was ever really like explained to me.

I just, I just had an understanding of it.

You know, like she was doing meth in the house.

Like I never had to be told that she was a drug addict.

I definitely, I knew it wasn't normal.

Like we knew it wasn't normal.

We were upset by it and stuff.

And like that specifically, that really wasn't the problem.

It was, you know, what comes with being a meth addict, like the violence and like.

The fighting and the people in and out, like it was just like that was more traumatic to me.

But it wasn't until I was like a little bit older, probably like more recently, like the last five years where I really was like, this is a disease.

It's not a choice.

It's not like her having abandoned me.

It's like something that she struggles with so bad.

And that was helpful to not resent her so much.

What is your relationship like with your mom today?

that's um I literally I just recently like a few weeks ago we went completely no contact really like I had to fully block her which was horrible if you don't mind me asking like what sparked that response um I've done it a few times I've like I've wrestled with it a lot because like

Similar to Canceled, I feel like I was trying to heal from something, like a relationship that I was still in.

I really wanted to work through some of that, except I was still suffering at the hands of her, it felt like.