EP 55: My Fair Junkie with Amy Dresner

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

Self-improvement, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Amy is a former professional comedienne who struggled with addictions to anything and everything. After getting sober in 2012, she wrote a beautifully honest addiction memoir, My Fair Junkie. Amy talks to Annie about her addictions and the life of freedom she is now living in such a refreshingly real and raw way. My Fair Junkie by Amy Dresner

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0:00.0	This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without
0:15.2	judgment, pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.
0:20.2	Hi, this is Annie Grace at this naked mind podcast and today I'm really excited about my guest
0:32.4	because I got, I'm here with Amy Dresner, the author of My Fair of Junkie and I got Amy's
0:37.7	book in the mail from your publicist I think and literally devoured it. I mean it was, I was like
0:44.7	riveted from page one. It is such such a good read and I think you're an excellent writer and I
0:50.1	just felt like immediately enthralled in your whole story. It was great. It's such a good book.
0:57.2	Anyway, My Fair Junkie and I I'd love you to just share your story so I don't know if we can
1:03.3	back way way up and yeah, I was back way up. I bet that's that tell you found me. I was like,
1:09.6	why did she find me? Well thank you so much. Yeah, people seem to be like reading it like one
1:18.5	sitting and it's like they're just like, I can't put it down. No, you can't put it down. It's like
1:23.3	I was ignoring my kids and I'm like, no, I'm gonna be up all night. I'm like, sleep. It'll be
1:31.4	there tomorrow. I mean I'm in there for it to be like an installing read and keep it going but I
1:36.6	didn't want people to be like, I can't move. Okay, so backing up, a born and bred here in Los Angeles
1:49.1	in Beverly Hills went to like private uniform school. My mom was like a hippie so I spent a part
1:55.2	of the time in Laurel Canyon and then the other time with my dad in Beverly Hills. He was a
1:59.5	screenwriter, comedy screenwriter and TV writer. My mom was like a was a fashion designer,
2:04.0	turned textile designer. I'm an only child. My parents split when I was like two.
2:10.4	I have a lot of mental illness in my family. Woo! And a lot of addiction also. So I sort of like
2:17.2	the jewels, the family tree. I was very, I was a total good girl in high school. I didn't smoke or
2:26.3	drink or to drink. Basically, I did this joke all the time. It was stupid. Like again, I am a
2:31.3	recovering comedian. I was a comic for five years and I haven't done comedy since I got
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