COLORFUL RECOVERY –
June 4, 2023 -Gauthier, who lives in Osoyoos in B.C.’s Okanagan, said she’s been sober for 22 months following a near-fatal overdose.
To celebrate one year of sobriety, she decided to tour British Columbia.
“I slept in the tent for the whole summer with my dog and we came to Osoyoos and I liked it so much here that I decided to move here,” she said.
While living in a motel during the winter, Gauthier said she saved up enough money to buy a trailer at the beginning of the year. Renovations included applying paint from Home Hardware’s Barbie Dreamhouse Colour Collection to the trailer’s exterior. The inside of the trailer has different look, one Gauthier describes as having a “happy, creepy vibe.”
You’ll find her collection of antique dolls sitting cozily on a bed, as well as her collection of “Catholic Church stuff, like crucifixes, rosaries, old fixtures of Mary and Jesus,” with black walls as a backdrop, although that is changing.
“I kind of realized that it was too dark in here and it was looking kind of a little bit too creepy,” Gauthier said. “So then I started adding some more pink and now I’m adding even more pink. So it’s brightening up in here a lot.”
