OPRAH VIDEO: Watch Oprah Show About ‘Beautiful Boy’ on Drugs: A father writes memoir about his son’s addiction to crystal meth, son Nick recovers and writes his own memoir called Tweak…
Oprah has an ‘after the show’ video up about Nick, who was addicted to crystal meth.
David Sheff is the dad, who wrote an article titled “My Addicted Son” for the New York Times Magazine.
That piece got such an amazing response, Sheff later wrote the Beautiful Boy book further detailing his nightmarish obsession with his son Nick, who first got drunk at age 11.
Nick spiraled down into a horrible crystal meth addiction that led him to sell his body for sex, steal from his little brother’s piggy bank and more.
In and out of rehab five times, Nick has been clean and sober for about 2 or 3 years now. Praise God!
(Watching the Oprah show about drug addiction, I kept thinking of Helen Baylor’s cocaine testimony and how her grandmother fasted — drinking only water for two weeks — and prayed and the Lord set Helen free from horrible drug addictions.)
Nic Sheff has written his own memoir called Tweak, which — in light of the James Frey A Million Little Pieces (of lies) debacle — Oprah made sure to read the foreword stating that Tweak was Nic’s best recollection of what happened when he was on drugs.
You couldn’t help but fall in love with Nic and his dad, especially as David recounted the horror of not knowing where his son was for so many nights.
Of how he walked the streets and neglected his new wife and little children during his complete obsession with finding Nic.
Of how he begged Nic to come get in the car with him when Nic looked like the “walking dead” one day.
And I just loved Nic for his complete honesty over how low he sank.
I’m so glad these two are doing okay now.
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