I was a drug, alcohol and gambling addict – I lost everything, now I’m a bestselling author

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Oct. 6, 2022 – Obviously, I couldn’t go to the police about the threats from the dealer, and I didn’t have money to pay them so I ran away to Thailand. But then, of course, I ran out of cash and had to come home.

I was in a desperate situation and had no choice but to go to my mum and dad to ask for money to get the dealers off my back. I’d been worrying every second of every day that they would physically harm me, but the mental harm it did with not knowing what they would do was almost worse.

It was a huge sense of relief to have it paid off. I should have asked for help a lot sooner, but I couldn’t do it, I didn’t want to let my family down.

It was a complete shock to them. Mum had a motherly intuition that things weren’t right, but she had no idea of the extent of how bad it was. They helped me through their savings, and I was forced to sell my house to pay off the gambling debts. I went to Australia to get away, but I found similar people and did all the same things over there.