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Melton John is one of my closest friends.

He's been in recovery forever, it feels like.

And God knows, he said to me when I came out, he went, how the?

Did I miss that?

The day I was going to rehab. the airport. And I thought, oh God, I haven't called my son. I only have one son. And he is a mensch. I mean, he's amazing. I called him. I said, oh, Jordan, I've just called you. I'm going on the plane. I'm going to America. He said, Mom, were you going to America if I didn't you were going away? I'm going to rehab. What? What? What for? I said, I'm an

alcoholic. No, wait a minute, wait a minute. He was shocked. Yeah. And we're close. Yeah.

So you hit that. Oh my God. Yeah. I just wouldn't get drunk in front of people. Yeah.

I learned to hide because when my Oh my gosh, yeah, yeah. I just wouldn't get drunk in front of people. Yeah.

I learned to hide because when my father and mother was screaming and things being knocked about,

we lived in a tenement building in Scotland.

You could hear everything.

Yeah.

I mean, the walls are thick, but, you know, if you're living up, the close, you think when she walked out the next day, my mother, I'd be with my mother sometimes.

This is the thing I always remember.

She'd have a black eye, and the neighbor would have to say something because you couldn't.

I mean, no matter what she did to hide it, it was obvious. And she'd say

stupid things like, oh, stood on the brush and it came back and hit me in the eye. And I'd opened

the door and something fell and I'd stand there absolutely in the darkest, deepest shame. Because I knew we were hiding the truth and they knew.

And they knew.

But I learned to hide.

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