Alcohol Destroyed My Life
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How did Maddie's struggle with alcohol begin?
I'm Maddie, and I'm an alcoholic. I started drinking whenever I was 14 years old, and I didn't really get addicted right at 14. I wasn't like, yeah, this is awesome. In fact, I got really sick. I was mixing Jose Cuervo with Tecate beer, and we drank that all night. I woke up throwing up on the floor on a towel, and an upperclassman was helping me. It was a guy.
Mm-hmm.
Um, and I knew of him, but like, I didn't really, like I knew his name and I woke up and I was throwing up on the towel cause I had thrown up so much in the trash can and he did everything for me. Like he took care of me. I was very fortunate. Um, I don't know why he took care of me. I don't know. really what you know provoked him to do that but I thank him and I ended up um dating him later on but so quick question for you I already have a question so you said that you started drinking at 14 were you in high school yeah I just I
went to high school so you just got into high school and then it was just like your normal average like partying right kind of thing yeah that's how it started out as okay totally so was that situation that you were just talking about or that incidence was that the first time that you drank or was that just one of the times that was the first time I drank and I actually got drunk so like I had like
Snuck a Four Loko and like pretended to like drink it in my friend's closet like six months prior to that. So I had like dabbled in drinking, but I really wasn't. like fully enthralled with it by any means. The only reason I went to that party was because I was becoming friends with all the upperclassmen. And I also had a boyfriend at the time. Okay. But he was way into sports and, you know, like doing something with his life. And I just was like, you know, F it, I'm 14. I don't fucking care. Yeah. So he was not at the party. So that was kind of a rough conversation to have. afterwards, too, of him, you know, being like, what happened? And me being like, I don't know, but, you know... Drew took care of me. Yeah.
And so that's kind of like my first big time drinking, getting sick. And then the next day I was supposed to work as a lifeguard at the like family owned run water park in our hometown. And I did not. I didn't make it. No, ma'am. Yeah. My parents really didn't punish me because my dad is also an alcoholic as well. Did you see a lot of that growing up? Yes and no. So like whenever I was young, my dad drank non-alcoholic beer. And so like we knew growing up, you know, daddy had a problem. So that's why, you know, he has to drink non-alcoholic beer now because he can't really have the alcoholic beer. But then, you know, later on into, you know, once we started growing up, he started drinking regular beer, not non-alcoholic beer. And my mom, love her.
She has no problem with it. Kind of envious of her for that. But yeah, I've never really, I'm sure I've seen her drink, but never more than like too. It's just like not her style. My dad, on the other hand, and that's also in a fucked up way, I relate to him more on the alcoholic and like the addiction side of things. And that's not like my favorite thing to talk about because I don't love that I relate to him on such a dark level. OK, so back to the story about me drinking at the house and like first getting drunk. So that girl, the house that I was at, I was actually really close friends with her. And so we would go out to parties afterwards one time. So I'm fast forwarding to. a year and a half after the drinking incident at her house. I had been hanging out at random parties and not gotten a handle on my drinking, but knew how to drink and not throw up and wake up on a towel the next day. Oh, and I also had thrown up all over her new Pottery Barn duvet cover. She forgave me for that. So she's a real one for that.
Yeah, I was going to say lucky.
But anyways, so we continued like just partying randomly. We were both very involved in sports. I was so involved in cheer. That's like why I moved away from my hometown is for cheer. But I was dating the guy who helped me whenever I had gotten drunk a year and a half later. So like much time had passed. And we ended up, I lost my virginity to him at 16.
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