I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.
I've never done drugs. That's because I saw this stuff literally every day when I was 3 or 4 years old.
I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs.
A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.
I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.
I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?
I promise you that I did not become an addict because of anything to do with the behavior of either of my parents. Everybody has to make their own choices.
When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.
If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.
My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever music I wanted to, and that made me not rebel. I have never touched a drug in my life.