YOU BET SHE WAS –
May 6, 2025 – As far as her coworkers were concerned, Mary Durso was a successful career woman, a wife and mother, who juggled a demanding six-figure-salary job with raising her adorable daughter.They had no idea that every lunchtime the Chicago based data programing executive would drive to a park…
Nor could they have had any idea that her exhaustion was the product of the hopeless addiction that kept her up all night.
For Durso’s drug of choice was gambling – as addictive as any opioid and every bit as destructive.
Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail, Durso, 60, recalls: ‘I was in the midst of a nightmare. I was hypnotized by the colorful lights and the exciting sounds on the floor of the casino.’
Today, she estimates that she squandered more than $1million. Now 14 years ‘clean’, she gambled for as many years as she has been in recovery.
During that time, she cashed in her 401K, drained her accounts, ended her marriage and very nearly lost her child.
