'Dancing with the Stars' pro Sharna Burgess is opening up about her past drug addiction, and the moment she realized it was time to turn her life around. In a new episode of iHeartPodcast 'Old-ish' with fiancé Brian Austin Green and Randy Spelling, the 38-year-old admitted...
"Dancing with the Stars" pro Sharna Burgess has opened up about her past drug addiction, and the moment she realized it was time to turn her life around.
Burgess explained that at that point, she "had been smoking meth now for a little while. Not every day, but just on and off because it was new." "I realized that I had come from being an Australian champion ballroom dancer, I represented my country at the World Championships. I was an athlete, the best in the country at the time, and because of a knee injury I fell off," she said. "But I realized how far I'd [fallen] and how much I needed to get back to that person, that this was not what I was meant for."
Asked whether there were "little signs" to seek treatment for her addiction, Burgess admitted to having some "scary moments." But, "this still wasn't enough for me to stop" because there were "so many triggers that sent me back into it," which included her relationship with her father and her home life.
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