At 18 Riley moved to LA, got into the adult entertainment industry, made fast money, found cocaine & alcohol, and ran that combination through her entire 20s. In 2023 she got pregnant but couldn't stop using. She missed 2 Christmases that she blamed on her daughter being sick when it was Riley being hungover. Riley's breaking point was being in closet at 4am doing coke, convinced there were people in her house that weren't there, called 911, the operator told her to get some sleep and hung up, and she grabbed her daughter and drove 80 miles an hour to her ex's parents' house to try and convince them they needed safety.


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00:00 Intro
01:40 Riley Jensen
06:40 The family disease
08:32 Doing P*** at 18yo
14:14 First attempt at sobriety
16:23 Pregnant and couldn't stop
18:28 Post partum addiction
20:06 Going Into Psychosis
22:33 Walking into AA, 3 times a day, the first 60 days
31:55 First sober airplane and vacation
35:51 80-year-old sponsor
39:43 Dad chaired her first meeting
43:18 Breaking the cycle
56:24 "This is me. This is the real Erica."