(soft dramatic music)
My son, Cameron is a drug addict.
One time Cameron was high on something and he passed out
and hit our wood coffee table.
The whole right side of his face was swollen and cut.
You trippin' on acid right now?
No.
Is that the 120 bucks you buy a sheet of acid,
so you can deal and distribute it?
No.
When we moved to Florida his junior year,
is when the drugs took over.
I started kind of just smoking weed here and there.
And then I started drinking.
And then it started like with pills, like opiates.
I liked at the time to mix uppers and downers
and anything, I could get my hands on
because I wanted to feel good.
The drugs started using me, rather than me using them.
After a while I had noticed I lacked all self-control
and would do anything in order
to get the substances I wanted.
I'm used to being on drugs and just being numb
and burning every bridge so that they don't talk to me.
I would just do drugs all night
and then sleep all day and miss school.
And then when I'd see my family during the day,
I would be rude to them.
We realized the drugs were out of control,
and that's when we sent him to rehab.
I've been to five or four rehabs, maybe more.
And it helps some people, but I would always relapse.
My husband Bart and I have spent
well around a hundred thousand dollars
sending Cameron to different rehabs, therapies,
any program we can get to help him.
I definitely feel we want him sober more than he does.
Okay.
What were y'all talking about during the tapings?
You don't wanna be in our life, us in your life.
No.
You're putting words in my mouth again.
It's just hypocrisy.
He thinks we're against him.
And we're trying to truly, we're trying to work with you.
Save you Cameron.
What's your frustration right now?
My frustration is that they,
you know, they drink an excess.
Okay.
Yeah and then in reality,
they are always just putting everything on me,
you know, yelling at me.
Am I to understand that you say
this is kind of like the pot calling the kettle back?
Absolutely.
They do what you do.
They just don't get the attention for it.
Yeah, I think that's what it is.
So they point the finger at you,
when everybody's kind of doin'
some of the same self destructive things,
is what you're sayin'?
Yeah, I completely.
Yeah, that's what I think.
I could be wrong.
But the point I've made to Cameron is we're all adults.
I said the difference is, we're living and leading a life.
We're running a family, we're working,
we're doing what you're supposed to do in life.
And whether we drink or not, we can control our emotions,
we can control our actions
and still do what we need to do to live a life.
And I even told Cameron, I mean,
this is probably hyperbole
and maybe not the most father of the year thing to say
but at some point I said to Cameron look,
if you graduate from high school and get a job
and are progressing, I don't care if you smoke pot.
But you're not doing any of that.
And that's probably not the right thing to say,
but you're not, you're not progressing
and I think this is part of the problem.
Yeah.
You have no idea how wrong that is to say.