But Stacey Dash is entitled to her beliefs and should exercise her right to bring her issues to public debate.Įxcept, the thing is, some of her issues are a little…yikes. Which, of course, is all fine. Sure, the CA-44th voted Democratic in 2016 by over 83 percent and it’s unlikely any Republican is going to unseat a sitting member who, as it happens, is a glass-ceiling-breaking Latina considered a leader to watch in California politics. She endorsed Mitt Romney in 2012 and penned a memoir, There Goes My Social Life: From Clueless to Conservative. She became a conservative cultural critic and was even hired as a pundit for Fox News. This is unlikely to go well for Stacey Dash.Īfter her rise to B-list 1990s screen stardom, Dash’s career took a bit of a turn. She’s hoping to unseat Democratic incumbent Nanette Barragán to represent Compton, Watts, San Pedro, and North Long Beach in the U.S. They can't do it on their own.Today Stacey Dash-you remember her as Dionne from Clueless-filed the official paperwork to run for Congress, CNN reports. "And for people who are not addicts, I would ask them to please look at people with more compassion and empathy, understanding because they need help. "I feel like telling my story-letting people know that there is no shame in being an addict, there is no shame in getting help because that's what we need," she said. They were addicted."ĭash credits her faith for helping her get sober and hopes that, by sharing her story, she can help people battling with addiction. And in this five years, my blessing-the greatest blessing is that not only have I been able to be honest with myself and become a better person, I've been able to understand my parents and that they did love me and that they were doing the best they could and they were just sick. "I just celebrated five years of sobriety," she said. Within eight hours there was an intervention guy at my house and I was on a plane to Utah to go to rehab….It wasn't until the last 10 days that I said, 'Oh, snap. "I called my sister and I told her 'Come over right now.' And then I called my attorney and I said, 'I need help.' And she sent me away. You can't do this life.' And I almost did something stupid. "That again was when I thought, 'OK, Stacey, then give up. And by the grace and mercy of god, I lived."Īfter she left the hospital, Dash continued to abuse drugs.
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So, I got rushed to the hospital and I had to have a full blood transfusion and I was in there for three weeks. "My kidneys were so infected that my blood was septic, and my organs were shutting down. The Clueless star said she "lost everything." And when Oz asked how much money she had spent on drugs each month, Dash guessed about $5,000 to $10,000. It's no one's fault but my own."Īt one point, Dash said she "was taking 18 to 20 pills a day" and that nobody knew. It gave me the ease so that I could deal with life. I chose to do that because the Vicodin filled that hole inside of me. "It was my choice to take that extra one even though I wasn't in pain. "I'm not blaming doctors at all because it was my choice to take more, you know?" she said. She had been prescribed Vicodin to help with her painful fibroid cysts and became addicted. After being sober for 20 years, she relapsed. Even though my home was unstable and my father was a heroin addict, I knew he loved me. I became angry at I'd say around the age of 10 or 11, which is when my mother finally left my father. "It was at that time that I remembered that that happened to me, and I had already been very angry. "I didn't really remember until I was 17 when I tried to kill myself," Dash, who later noted a friend rushed her to the emergency room and saved her life, said. In addition, Dash said she was molested when she was 4 years old.
Dash also said that, when she was 16, her mother gave her her first line of cocaine. Mehmet Oz told viewers Dash first tried drugs when she was 8 years old. She said her parents were addicted to drugs, and Dr. Oz Show.ĭuring the interview, Dash spoke about her past. The 54-year-old actress shared her journey during the Oct. Stacey Dashis speaking about her battle with addiction and her road to recovery.
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