Tamara Thompson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So I go in there and this was the first time I actually spoke up to the judge because the guy was always like, don't say anything.
I'll just, you know, we'll give you the best term.
And I literally, I broke down and I was like, I had just gone back to college, basically film school, my late 20s, because I was unhappy.
I was starting to get like straight A's.
I had just sobered up, of course, before the court.
It was going to meetings, doing the thing, got a sponsor, doing all the things I was supposed to be doing.
And I literally was like,
I don't want this.
I want to try to ask for help.
I want to ask for something.
And I came up and I proposed to the judge.
I was like, I will do.
Can you create a work release program?
I was like, I will pay for it out of my own pocket.
Like I'm like a nanny right at that point.
I'm a part time nanny college girl in my late 20s.
I'm like, I was messed up.
And I knew I needed help.
And so that that moment I step in the court and I just like I provided everything.
I was like my straight A's back in college, my sobriety, my A slip, all of it.