Ep. 32 Being In a VICE Documentary Changed My Life w/ Kevin

Recovering From Reality

Dear Media, Alexis Haines

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🗓️ 13 September 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Kevin started using drugs at 12 years-old, and when we met at 15, we started using together. Because we each had so much family chaos and trauma, we truly relied on each other to get by. Our relationship involved drugs, cheating, abortion, violence, and pure chaos. It was toxic. We eventually parted ways and I got sober. Two years later while I was working for VICE, I got a call that Kevin needed help. We ended up doing a mini doc on him and it now has over 1.2 million downloads on YouTube. Now, six years later were catching up with Kevin.

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0:00.0	Today I'm sitting down with Kevin Bopson.
0:03.5	You might remember Kevin from the Vice Documentary that I did about six years ago right after the birth of my first daughter Harper.
0:11.5	Kevin and I dated a very long time ago and had a very toxic relationship that resulted in us parting ways on not the greatest terms.
0:24.0	And he continued to use and eventually I got sober.
0:28.5	A couple years later I got a call that he was in a really really bad position.
0:34.0	And I decided to reach out to Vice and to see if we could help him in some way get into treatment.
0:43.5	Today I am so glad that Kevin is doing really well.
0:48.5	It was kind of a spur of the moment thing. Many of you guys reach out to me on social media.
0:54.5	I think because that Vice doc that we put up on YouTube ended up having 1.2 million downloads which is incredible.
1:02.5	This is really the first time that we've ever sat down and had like a comprehensive dialogue about everything that transpired in our lives and our past, our history with dating and drug dealing and the chaos of our relationship and then eventually helping him to get sober and where he's at today.
1:20.5	One thing is for sure, recovery is often messy. His journey has been messy, mine has to.
1:29.5	I'm just really glad that we both made it out alive and that we were able to sit down together and to do this, to hash it out and have a really interesting dialogue around sobriety and you know to follow up and see where we're at today.
1:46.5	So I hope you love this episode.
1:50.5	Hey, it's Alexis Haynes and this is my podcast, Recovering From Reality.
2:09.5	Is this a trip? Once last time I saw you.
2:13.5	I don't know, I saw you a few years ago.
2:16.5	That was like for a minute though. Longing a year ago because they shut down after the fires.
2:22.5	That was almost a year ago which is such a trip.
2:25.5	Yeah, that's how I saw it before that. It's probably like three years prior to that.
2:30.5	It's crazy. Does anybody ever say, oh hey you're Kevin from Vice? Does anybody ever say Kevin?
2:37.5	Maybe like twice.
2:40.5	That's it. Yeah.
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