Drugs are more important to Bethany than anything else,
even herself.
A couple days after Christmas,
they put her into a medical induced coma
for about 10 days.
The doctors realized she had
a major leakage in one of her valves.
Bethany got a pig heart valve.
Also, the doctors end up installing a pace maker.
Even though I've had open heart surgery
and a pace maker put in,
I'm still getting high.
It breaks my heart.
She's just been out of the hospital a very short time.
Yeah.
You know, they say once they operated on their heart
that if you go back to drugs,
you'll die.
I have definitely resorted to things to get drugs.
I worked at a strip club.
I've done sexual favors for guys in order to get drugs.
It's reality time.
Mom.
She's doing sexual favors for money.
Stripping.
Larceny.
Where did you think she was getting the money?
I had no idea.
Have you gotten high today?
Mhm.
You brought heroin on the plane with you here, right?
Mhm.
Our hearts are breaking, Bethy.
You don't have any idea at how deep it hurts.
It seeps life and you don't really care.
And we just want the Bethy that cares.
The only chance
that you have
is not to treat your addiction,
but to treat you.
I don't wanna live like this anymore.
Well, joining us is Bethany, her mother Charlotte,
and her father Clyde,
and Bethany is nine months sober
as she sits here today.
That's right.
Thank you lord.
(cheering)
How do you feel?
I feel really good.
Yeah?
You feel good physically as well?
Physically, mentally.
You're nine months sober
and you were pretty deep into this.
What was the hardest thing digging out?
Probably just accepting where I was.
Like, where I came from
and starting over.
You were really held accountable for the first time.
And you had always been able to manipulate before
but that kind of came to an end, right?
Yeah, it was frustrating for me.
What?
Being
stopped.
Yeah.
But that had to happen, right?
Yeah, for sure.
What do you guys think of what she's done
and where she is at this point?
I am totally thrilled to have my daughter back.
She's just not the same child.
You can look in her eyes
and see there's a different young lady in there now.
Clyde, how about you?
This was hard for you to see at the time
and face at the time.
A couple things, doc,
as bad as my heart hurt for the pain
of what she was doin',
after lookin' into her eyes when she's sober
and seeing them and my girl was there,
and I could have a conversation with her,
a normal conversation.
And I wanna thank you.
I wanna tell you that God uses men to help people.
No, listen.
(clapping)
And God had used you
to help get my girl to a place where she could get help,
so we want you to know that we thank you for helping,
but first of all we thank God for doin' it.
We really do.
Don't wanna defame you 'cause you're a good man.
I mean that.
And from my family I want you to know
that we're very grateful to you
and we thank you very much.
Well, I appreciate you sayin' that,
and trust me,
I tell you for certain,
I pray really hard that God gives me the wisdom
and the words that I need to say the things
that I need to say.
I felt like we were at a real end of the rope with you.
I kind of felt like if I let her walk out of here
and not have a plan and a commitment,
I felt like she seriously might die.
You made a great decision,
that's all I can tell you.
We appreciate it.
I'm really proud of you
and I want you to keep puttin'
one foot in front of the other.
Thank you.