My aunt is a super hero.
She's always been there for us.
In my eyes, my Aunt Joni is a complete enabler.
She takes my mom to different houses,
I call them drug houses.
My mom's going to buy narcotics.
I don't think my Aunt Joni's enabling her.
What Aunt Joni will do is move around pain pills
from different family members to make sure
that they're all being fed.
(dramatic music)
Nate says he is frustrated with his family's lack
of support in helping their mother, Helen,
stop abusing opioids.
He also points a finger at his Aunt Joni
who he believes is enabling their mother's addiction.
Take a look at this.
I'm concerned for Helen because I want her
to have a long life.
At the moment, her medications are kept in a lock box.
They're only given to her at prescribed times.
She crushes the pills and liquefies them
and that's what she's supposed to do.
The problem is, she takes the morphine and then,
she'll take something else.
Then she's kind of stupid for awhile.
With Helen, I don't trust her in my house.
She's taken medications out of containers
from my family members.
One time, Helen said that she had pancreatic cancer.
People gave her money so that she
could take care of what she needed.
It was a absolute, big, fat lie.
You want me to help you off that chair (mumbles).
Honestly, some days, I'd like to punch her.
Nathan thinks he can fix everything, but he can't always,
and sometimes he's a (bleep) monster.
If you wanna say that I'm an enabler, well, maybe I am.
But I'm the person that's there all the time.
When it come to Nathan, he thinks he has all the answers.
Nathan can be very bossy.
He thinks if he slams his hand on the table and says,
"We're gonna fix this thing,"
it's just gonna happen like magic.
Do you enable this woman?
I don't give her drugs.
I don't say, "Here you go, Helen, go get high."
You don't have to do that.
If she asks me to take her some place, I take her.
You said that you actually believe
when she says she has these illnesses.
I've never been told otherwise.
You can't tell me that a woman that goes to the hospital
20 or 30 times a year, throws herself down the stairs,
that it doesn't occur to you that she's manipulative.
I can--- No, no, no.
Can I say something? No, no, you can't.
I'm talking to you-- I know.
And I haven't gotten a straight answer out of you yet.
Okay, I get a phone call,
Helen needs to go to the hospital.
I just go and pick her up and take her.
If I get a phone call and she needs to go get
her hair, her nails done, I take her to get them done.
And she says, "Oh, I sold some jewelry to this woman.
"I need to go pick up my money."
That's where you think I took her to get drugs,
and I didn't know that.
You know the house, you know--
I don't! The people in there.
It's an apartment building.
What do I know? Okay, okay.
Listen, if I need your help, I know right where you are,
and I'm gonna come right to ya.
Are you telling me you don't know that
when she's pawning jewelry and you're taking her
to a drug house, you don't know that that's a drug house
and you don't know she's getting drugs?
And if you don't know, that's okay, tell me,
because if you're that naive, then I'm gonna excuse you
from this and i'm gonna let you off the hook here
because I can't have you here
if you're gonna buy her (beep).
But understand, I didn't take her to a drug house.
I took her to a high rise apartment building
for senior citizens.
She said she sold jewelry that she made.
How could you not know?
How would I know that somebody in this,
in the high rise senior citizens apartment building
was selling drugs?
Because she's a deeply entrenched addict
and she has one agenda in her life
and that is to get to the next high.
Okay, but it doesn't look like a drug house.
Quite honestly...
(audience laughing)
I've never heard of that happening there.
You were frustrated enough with her last night
that you yanked the hair off her head.
Yeah, I was.
She spent my car payment money.
On? Liquor.
Both nights. I told her the night
before-- Both nights she did it.
You can't drink.
They're not gonna pay for this,
you don't have the money to pay for it
and I'm not gonna pay for it.
Well, guess what, I paid for it.
Because, there's no choice.
What do you mean there's no choice?
I could let her go to jail.
There you go.
(audience applauding)
What is my message, what are you hearing me say?
Stop letting her do things.
I-- Stop enabling her,
is what he's saying. I get that, I get that.
Just say you do enable her.
Okay, but when I got there last night,
they wouldn't, they weren't gonna let her go
until somebody paid the bill.
So I paid the bill.
(audience laughing)
Aunt Joni, we talked about this.
You're her sister. I know.
You have enabled her and you admitted to it.
Just say it. Okay.
It's okay. All right.
You enable her. All right, I enable her.
Okay. If you do things
that make it possible for her
to continue on this drug course.
You're helping her kill herself.
She's committing suicide.