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Christine Brown has opened up about one thing extraordinarily private and really painful.
In her new memoir — which is on sale NOW and an excerpt from which has been shared by Individuals Journal — the Sister Wives star admits in public for the primary time that she briefly battle an dependancy to oxycodone.
Her reliance on these ache drugs occurred after she was prescribed to make use of it following knee damage.
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“Just before Maddie and Caleb got married [in 2016], I blew out my knee. I tore my ACL and my meniscus, and I had to have surgery. Kody brought me home from the hospital and then prepared to leave,” Christine writes.
“‘What do I need to do?’ I asked, wondering about meds and aftercare. ‘I don’t know,’ he said. ‘They didn’t give you any instructions?’ ‘No,’ he said. But he had gotten my prescription for pain pills filled, and he handed me the bag.”
Sounds just a little odd; or not less than like Kody didn’t care an ideal deal about his spouse’s medical considerations.
“My mom and daughters stayed to help. I had never taken oxycodone before — if something hurt, I took ibuprofen or aspirin,” she continues within the e-book.
“Real pain indicates that something’s wrong, and if I take something that masks the problem, I’m not going to fix the problem, so I generally avoid it. With the surgery, I had already fixed the problem, and it hurt, so I took my meds.”
Christine Brown and Kody Brown barely speak lately. (TLC)
Brown recalled feeling like she “had the flu” whereas additionally being “achy from head to toe,” so she “took an oxycodone, and all the symptoms went away.” She went on as follows:
“It gave me the best high I ever felt. I was on top of the world, and I could accomplish everything!”
As cited above, Christine’s memoir got here out on September 2.
Inside its pages, she talks about dropping her virginity to Kody and, on this case, talks about how “absolutely devastating” her substance abuse challenge was whereas it lasted.
“It was very difficult, and even though I was on it for a month, the effects of it lasted at least six. I didn’t feel normal,” she continues.
“I didn’t feel okay for so long. So, once I was done and I felt better, I just felt good to feel better. And I realized that with writing the book, that’s something I didn’t go back and revisit was the addiction to oxycodone.”
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To conclude this subject, Christine says that “oxy is a terrible, addictive thing if you don’t need it” and tells readers:
“When you want it and also you’re in a variety of ache, there’s nothing higher than that, however since I can get hooked on issues simply, it appears it’s simply greatest to steer clear of that form of factor.
“But I just wasn’t in a place where I could talk about it on the show. I just really couldn’t. It was so personal, and it was embarrassing, and I didn’t know if I wanted people to know that about me.”
Typically Christine has teased this memoir as gritty and sincere, a preview that might seem like correct primarily based on the excepts shared right here.
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The outline on Amazon for Brown’s memoir reads as follows:
Changing into Kody Brown’s third spouse in 1994, Christine lastly discovered the massive, completely happy household she had hoped for. When TLC’s hit present Sister Wives premiered in 2010, Christine knew it was her probability to shine a light-weight on the brighter facet of polygamy—the serving to palms, the vigorous discussions, and their unmatched devotion to one another.
However the cameras additionally revealed a a lot darker fact.
On this candid tell-all, Christine shares for the primary time the journey that led her away from the Morman church and the daring path she is carving to stay aside from all she has ever identified.
Transferring, real, and insightful, this can be a uniquely highly effective tour de drive of Christine’s journey towards and past her time within the highlight as a sister spouse.
