“Hi, I’m PK (Paris Katherine), an alcoholic and heroin addict.“, are his first words, to his more than five million Instagram followers, of the text that accompanies the moving compilation of videos that he decided to share to talk about the subject.
In addition to sharing her hardest, most vulnerable and strongest moments of her personal history with addictions, Paris shared the happiness what it feels like to be able to perceive and feel life in another way, and the happiness of being able to have gone through all these moments with the aim of enjoying things in sobriety again. “Here is a small sample of what has been possible thanks to my sobriety, and my goodness I can’t believe I almost missed it all“, shared the artist.
“Today they fulfill 5 years of being clean and sober from all drugs and alcohol. To say I’m grateful would be an understatement. Gratitude barely scratches the surface. It’s because I’m sober that I can smile today. I can make music. I can experience the joy of loving my dogs and my cat. I can feel the heartbreak in all its glory. I can cry. I can laugh. I can dance. “I can trust,” Paris shared.
His beginnings with addictions
The videos show Paris in various states under different substancesdrinking or drugged, and what the growth and process was like that led to her well-being and sobriety. Within what he decided to share, he includes the celebrations of the different stages she achieved sober, a compilation of happy and funny moments of herself, and others with friends, her partner and her pets.
His father, Michael Jacksondied in 2009 when she was only 11 years. That situation was a shocking event in his life since it was raised by her fatherbecause his mother, Debbie Rowehad renounced his tenure.
To the 15 years they began their problematic consumption and mental health, when he had a painkiller overdose and cut his wrists. That was the beginning of one of the multiple suicide attempts that he had throughout his hard and difficult adolescence, marked by addictions and excesses. “I tried to commit suicide many times. “I couldn’t take it anymore,” he had shared Paris then.
Today it shows happy and grateful that he was able to smile again and move forward. In December she got engaged to her boyfriend, Justin Longwho appears in several moments of the video with her. “I feel the sun on my skin and it is warm. I have discovered that life continues to happen, whether I am sober or not, but today I can be present to live it“, Paris ends his personal story.
Source: Ambito
