first time I tried I mean what
classifies a hard drug like xanax xanax
I was maybe in like seventh grade eighth
grade was the first time I had tried
cocaine and I snorted a little bit of
meth did you give me a list of what for
see how frightened pot samox
antidepressants cocaine crack heroin
oxycontin mess - CB - CI acid shrooms
MDMA I know that there's more but I
can't think of them all off the top of
my head
my name is Alexis Neiers at the age of
17 I became a reality TV star at the
time I was also a huge drug addict using
heroin and crack in between cakes of my
show pretty wild
when you're using a lot of drugs you
tend to fall in with a bad crowd and
that definitely happened to me in 2009 I
was arrested for my involvement in one
of the robberies that served as an
inspiration for the movie with The Bling
Ring I ended up being sent to jail twice
before being put into a poor ordered
rehab facility where after years of drug
use I finally obtained sobriety my life
is pretty different now I've been sober
for more than three years and I'm
married with a baby many of my friends
are still out there abusing drugs
including my ex-boyfriend Kevin I'm
hoping to help him and as many people as
I can to find a new life clean of drugs
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we are going to go meet up with an old
friend of mine Kevin and he is currently
a heroin addict and he reached out to me
and he said that he got hit by a car and
then he got his arm broken and he didn't
know what to do and so I got him into a
treatment center and he says that he's
ready to go so hopefully this will be
the last time that he uses Forrest my
neighborhood hair on City no I think
everybody here is a day-to-day heroine
I love the mostly myth and then the
other parts is mostly crack crack is
cheap my first time smoking crackers
with you oh yeah crack is horrible
though craps Christ shoot we probably
look much prefer Downers yeah I prefer
both Kevin and I began dating when I was
about 16 years
and we had a long crazy relationship and
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eventually we broke up he still remained
as my drug dealer and using buddy and
then I got sober when I first started
dating Kevin he was athletic he loved
skateboarding
he was into art he loved painting and
drawing he was very spiritual when he
started using stopped painting stop
doing art start focusing on his
spirituality so happened pretty quickly
for him just like it did for me number
Kimbo the yeah why does that die
yeah I can see oh I saw I don't know I
don't have a phone anymore advice to
have a picture of him and you naked him
up
no shot he had his little paw
around your booth oh you don't have that
photo anymore are you what about the
photo that you said you didn't
it's only the first time that I had
tried oxys I was in the car with heaven
I took my first hit and I fell in love I
remember Kevin looking at me and saying
you know you need to slow down this is
really dangerous
I didn't stop from that day forward
Alexis and my foster daughter Tessie
looked like holy hell sometimes and you
know we had a lot of good things
happening in our lives they were doing
great things as far as they were booking
movies in the entertainment industry
major motion film I couldn't understand
why they were so out of control I was a
trip watching you become famous it's
just I got of nowhere blowme because we
got on TV and I asked my girlfriend
I was the star of a reality television
show
with my family called pretty wild during
pretty wild was when my drug use
escalated to probably the highest it's
ever been my sister and I had a ten
thousand dollar a week habit we were
smoking
22:25 oxys a day 80-milligram oxys
clearly I was like really emotionally
unstable totally loaded on drugs and
that makes for great reality TV I don't
think they really like understood how
bad we were I didn't know that that the
girls were using the oxycontin until a
couple of months into the filming and
that's when I started noticing that
their eyes were rolling in the back of
their head my youngest daughter Gaby
came running into my bedroom and she's
like mom don't you smell that and I'm
like yeah it smells like burnt coconuts
what is it and she said it's oxy cotton
and I'm like well what is oxy cotton and
she said mom it's a really bad drug my
mom knew that we were drinking and
partying and she came to my apartment
and she walked in and she went to the
kitchen and all I had in my kitchen was
like half a Subway sandwich some beer
and foil like five rolls of foil and she
lost it you know she was like what the
is wrong with you and my response
was you you get the
out of my house I like to bake and
I slammed the front door on her and
that's just the way it was you know when
the money stopped coming in from pretty
wild really our only option was
switching the black tar heroin heroin
feels like our three times ten it feels
so good and then when you shoot it for
the first time who's never
like it it's instant I mean like I get
the chills like I can almost feel the
feeling just thinking about it
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in October of 2009 I was arrested and
charged with residential burglary
targeting the homes of celebrities I was
sentenced to six months in jail with
three years of probation when I got out
of jail I didn't show up to probation
for two months and they raided my house
on December 1st and that's when I was
charged with possession of heroin
you can spunk a few on I was waiting to
start walking used to hate on me for
smoking look oh my god used to crush my
cigarettes and pull them out of my mouth
and put them on oh my god pour water on
them now look at you
that was someone doing that to me
I'd be so pissed right now
I was pissed when I was 13 I started
selling drugs cuz everyone always asked
me for drugs at school because I knew
everybody so basically one day I've got
a bunch of drugs for certain people and
at the end of the day I ended up with
more money in my pocket
so it seemed like free money to me I
became a heavy this is where you got
raided last time yeah I came out through
here with two laptops to go sell them in
the the narcs followed me through the
alley and put me over in this last few
months I haven't been selling drugs cuz
the cops are just on everything so what
I've been doing to get money is I go
come up and steal stuff so it's like
quick easy money for me and that's
become a hobby stealing stuff it's just
like your whole day and all the times
revolved around getting money or how to
get drugs how to get high and stay well
so you're not just feeling like she yes
no that's not a way to dude is this a
good idea your arm is broken
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yeah this is the apartment complex that
I lived in it's my girlfriend like my
baby but now we're already together and
we had to leave cuz the cops okay coming
in harassing and trying to save my cave
away his girlfriend obviously didn't
want to deal with that so she went with
your parents and I'm just on the street
so I'm just like going day by day and
just basically trying to make money
every day just simple I'm happy but
heroin is everywhere in us so
everybody's doing it it was hard to stay
away from me you know my whole life
before getting into opiates I was in a
lot of pain because I suffered from like
so just so much crazy abuse and so much
fucked-up had happened to me
so using opiates was a way to put my
mind to sleep it allows you to be free
and do not give a anymore
for the people that started with pills I
know started like that with me because I
I didn't know what I was getting myself
into and like I didn't know opiates made
you feel like that so once I couldn't
get oxycontin or whatever I was getting
sick I don't know what's going on and
then someone said a well heroin is the
same type of thing so I started doing
heroin and I feel instantly better and I
became a habit did you have you had a
moment like that yet where you've had
like a moment of clarity like oh my god
I can't do this anymore all the time
just low points like shooting up like
just stare myself in the mirror just
like trying to find a vein like and I
just poking myself with a needle blood
everywhere and like you just like what
am i doing there was many low points in
my drug use
you know panhandling on the streets for
drugs low point considering prostitution
low point being raped low point losing a
relationship with my family low point
going to jail low point I thought that I
was gonna die a number of times and then
the day before I got sober I prayed and
I didn't even know what I was praying to
but I knew I was dying I knew it was
over
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I'll get cleaned and I'll go to jail and
get clean and get out and just be like
oh I'm gonna do this and that and then
it barely lasts like a few weeks I just
gonna sucks right back into it a little
alright
you know if I consistently do it it's
gonna end up in jail still alright so I
just think about it and it's like is
time for me to stop drugs because heroin
is putting me in positions that I
wouldn't have I don't want to be you
know me
that's what drug use is it's fun and
it's fun with problems and it's not
fun anymore
it's horrible that's just the way that
it is and then eventually you get sober
or you die I gotta say whatever right
now you another snack you just had a
snack Hey oh my god you a candy addict
you're gonna put on like 30 pounds in
Riau and just get it you have a nice gym
over there
you don't know I've never been there so
I don't know it looks so nice I saw the
beach people on the beach kicking in
girls oh there you go
there is some incentive he and the drugs
were my everything he sustained me you
know and that's really how unhealthy the
relationship became we spent every
single day together all day long so
whether it was like cutting coke or
selling drugs or picking up drugs or
taking drugs that's just what we did
towards the end it was like we're living
parallel lives and think sometimes they
would like cross and do each other's you
know and then like we'd keep moving on
and then like I just I never thought
that like we would ever sit face-to-face
again
we are currently on our way to pick up
Kevin to take him to treatment at the
Spencer Recovery Center and Laguna Beach
California when I entered drug rehab I
fought them tooth and nail I would fight
with every therapist I said I am opiate
dependent you people don't understand me
I have to use drugs because I'm a victim
I had this huge ego and at the same time
this huge victim consciousness where
everybody in the world had me
over
you know because no one was going to
take my drugs from me no one was gonna
say that I had a problem and that's just
the way it was
what did you last use
like few hours you
so you'll be fine until a doctor comes
and sees you yeah checks you out I'm
sure they'll have someone there like
right away I went to one group with this
guy and he was a recovering heroin
addict and he said one thing to me that
changed everything
he said normal people don't do heroin
something clicked
where I was like holy
he's right that was it I know I can take
you out of that car seat are you talking
to
it's like touching my head
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I'll come visit you after you're done
detoxing and me and Harper will come
down
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the people I live with how long have you
been at this house like a month
do you like you're better than Calabasas
oh yeah they get a lot better but I mean
from our cover he's better here
you're like 168 days sober what'd you
say like 65
I got no desire to go back to doing that
but I got like live for today at the
moment cuz I don't know what's gonna
happen in the future how I'm gonna feel
in the future so I might be trying to
think about that but yeah I don't know
what I was doing when I was doing that
stuff I think that when you have your
first love you'll always love them it's
a different type of love it's like you
just care about them you know and I
think that when you've been through
experiences like we've been through
there's like a bond that's there that
it's like I care so much about him in
his future and you just once so badly
like to see each other do Wow at the end
of it all
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you
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