Courtney Klein

She called and was like,

I know this is super random.

I know that you live in Maryland now.

I don't know what to do, but your dad, like, and that was one of the friends that my dad would like joke with.

So they were like, oh my gosh, it's Larry.

Like, yeah, he's in.

I remember them like trying to help him get him in the car, get him back home, called my brother.

My brother had to have his friend drive him to go get his truck.

It was just like one thing after another like that where he just, he had completely lost himself and was just on a downward spiral.

And I think my mom was hiding how bad it was from me, too, because I wasn't there to see it.

Because, you know, now that I'm older and we've talked about it a lot, it's like she would say she would come home and he'd be passed out in the bathroom.

And she'd come home from work and just find him in the bathroom.

And he would be sick from drinking or, you know.

So we eventually, my husband's an entrepreneur, so...

He started a new business and we moved to Ohio.

So we were much closer to my family.

At this point, I had a three-year-old and a toddler.

So I was like trying to raise my own family, coming into being a mom.

And we were now an hour and a half from my family, which was a good thing because we had never lived that close to them before.

And they were excited about that.