Hi, crime junkies. I'm Ashley Flowers.

And I'm Brits. That is right. I'll give everyone a moment to catch their breath,

squeal, cry, whatever it is you want to do. But Brits wanted to come on and give you guys an

update directly from her. Yeah, so I mean, I've come on here and talked about it a little bit before,

but I wanted to give you guys a more complete whole version of the story. Obviously, yes, I had

a spontaneous brain bleed that landed me in the hospital and Ashley, right, by my side.

And what to brain you had two brain surgeries. Yes. So one was to like the emergency one,

get to the ER, stop the bleeding, and then a couple days later, another one that was a little bit

less invasive, but to basically cauterize the vessels that had leaked and make sure that,

you know, wouldn't happen again, ideally. Yeah. Yeah. But the bigger issue was that I was

really, really enemic and really malnourished. And the reason for that was based in my alcohol

use and alcohol abuse. And that led me and Ashley and my husband and family to come to the decision

that I needed help. I'm going to cry. I think Ashley might too. But I, after being released from

the hospital, after my surgeries, after being cleared by everybody else, I entered a treatment

program. I've been out now for a while. I am sober. I am planning on staying that way with the

support of everyone around me, including our crime junkie family, which is why I wanted to tell

you that this is the journey I'm on and have been on in my time off mic. And I really appreciate

your, your support in this being my decision to talk about and this being something that it is

my story. It is my journey as much as you're on it with me. But also this is as much as it is my

story and my journey. There are people you obviously very included that are part of my life that

this still affects. And this is a journey for all of us. Yeah. I was just part of, I mean, I think

when people hear like my message again, I was like sobbing because when I found out, you know,

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