Tamara Thompson

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.