Renee Graziano is recalling essentially the most harrowing time in her life.
In November of final yr, the Mob Wives alum checked into rehab following a near-fatal drug overdose. Now, we’re studying extra about that overdose — which occurred again in September — as Graziano is the visitor on this week’s episode of the Dumb Blonde podcast.
Hosted by Bunnie XO, the podcast will drop in full on Wednesday. But on Tuesday, producers shared a preview clip with TMZ. In it, Renee particulars what occurred in her near-fatal overdose, which she blames on taking an unnamed drug laced with fentanyl.
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The 55-year-old — who’s the daughter of Anthony Graziano, the late former consigliere of the Bonanno crime household — stated the overdose occurred at a low level in her life. Her father had died a number of years earlier than, she wasn’t on talking phrases along with her sister Jennifer, and her son AJ Pagan didn’t need something to do along with her, both:
“I OD’d over this. I just lost my whole life. I couldn’t come up for air. Everything in my life was falling apart. My son didn’t want to talk to me. Nobody wanted to talk to me. Everything just started piling up and piling up. I gave up.”
September 18 was the fateful day, in line with the fact TV alum. In her personal phrases, somebody gave her “a bag of fentanyl” as a substitute of an unspecified drug she’d been anticipating, and she or he overdosed. The subsequent factor she knew, she awoke within the hospital three days later:
“I just lost my s**t, man. … I died in a restaurant in Florida. I was dead, intubated [in the hospital] for three days. No one in my family came to the hospital and I spent nine days there learning how to walk again.”
Holy s**t. She doesn’t keep in mind something from after the overdose, both:
“That was it for me. Three days are wiped from my brain. I don’t know what happened at all.”
OMG…
And her household by no means got here to the hospital. Amazingly, Renee understood their reasoning. She instructed Bunnie XO that she’d put them by way of a lot with prior dependancy points that she wasn’t shocked after they didn’t present up:
“They said I wasn’t gonna make it [alive] and my family just couldn’t do it, and I don’t blame them. I’ve put them through hell.”
Wow. Thankfully, the expertise in the end pushed her to vary her life and go to rehab. She even ended up at one in all Lamar Odom‘s Odom Wellness Treatment Centers to treat her addiction issues. And she’s had sobriety success!
We want her nicely. Addiction restoration is a protracted, exhausting street. Sending love and light-weight!! You can see the podcast’s teaser clip through TMZ on the hyperlink HERE. Reactions??
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