After my family's house caught fire,
I was diagnosed with severe anxiety and PTSD,
and I was prescribed Valium at 11 years old.
I'm supposed to take two, 20 milligrams of Adderall;
three, two milligram Xanax;
and Ambien every single night for insomnia.
Topomax as a mood stabilizer.
I also have a medical marijuana card.
The first time I got drunk I was 12 years old.
Now I get blackout drunk very often.
'Cause who doesn't love a Corona anyways.
Up top of my fridge, I like to keep sweet and sour mixer
because I love making margaritas.
I moved out of the house when I was 16 years old
and got my own place.
You've gotta start cleanin' up your own stuff.
You're almost 21 years old, it's time.
I have zero motivation.
I've been relying on my settlement money.
A couple months ago I received a $5000 cheque,
I blew it all on more lip injections,
my eyelashes, shopping.
I completely go (bleeps) when I have money.
It's go hard or go home, in my opinion.
In one night, I spent $2500 at a strip club.
I've bought a $500 purebred
just because I saw her at the mall.
All of these purses and stuff together
has cost me at least $12,000.
Whenever I spend too much money,
and I realize whoa, you've been partying a lot
and you're a little short on this power bill,
I gotta give my dad a ring.
I don't have anything else to do, so I spend money.
Well, it's good to meet you.
You think they need some healing.
My father feels an unnecessary amount of guilt
because he's my hero, he saved my life.
(audience applauds)
He absolutely did.
This hits really, really close to home for us.
Robin and I have been married for 42 years,
we've been together for 45 years,
and her older sister, Cindy,
which, she is always described as her person.
Yeah.
That person in this world that she could talk to--
Right.
And tell anything.
Back in 2002, she was driving down the highway
at like four o'clock in the morning,
and some idiotic moron at an overpass,
waited for the car to come through
and dropped a two gallon vat of acid on her car,
and it went through her windshield and doused her body.
and she got burns over 80% of her body.
I'm so sorry.
Robin, have you ever known a more traumatic thing
for somebody to go through?
Oh, no I haven't.
I've never, ever known anything or anyone
to go through anything like that.
And of course, no one deserves that,
but she went through that
and never, ever one time said why me?
Every time I was ever in her presence,
I knew I was in the presence of the most powerful
and strongest woman I have ever known.
She was determined to conquer her surgeries,
she went through over 35 reconstructive surgeries,
she lived for years, two years at least,
with the tissue expanders, skin grafts,
her mouth was fused for over a year.
She had to take little, tiny bites.
She had a fear of always choking,
but you never knew it.
She was truly the strongest, most determined woman.
She was not gonna let anyone take her life from her,
that she had worked so hard for.
She was a single mother,
she raised three beautiful children,
three beautiful daughters, she was a grandmother,
and she was just determined to live the life
that she had created and worked so hard for.
She was my hero.
And I was always so proud of her.
(audience applauds)
I can't even begin to imagine
a 10 year old child going through what you've gone through,
and everybody needs help with this.