Former escort SamanthaX_real opens up about her journey to sobriety and God.
“I was the ultimate party girl and now I’ve become one of those sparkly eyed,“I’ve never believed in God. But I pray now. My daughter said, ‘You know those people you make fun of? You’ve become one of them’,” she joked.
Samantha, who split from Channel 7 newsreader Ryan Phelan last year, said it was her “double life” as a journalist by day and callgirl by night that led her to develop a complex relationship with alcohol. “I’d hit rock bottom. It wasn’t catastrophic; I didn’t lose anything. But I guess I was a high functioning, spiritually dead person.”
“She said, ‘Your behaviour yesterday was the reason I’ve been sober for 10 years,’” recalled Samantha. “That was a real light-bulb moment for me.” “I love what I did, but once I sobered up, I felt like I’m worthy of a bit more. I always thought someone was going to come rescue me,” Samantha said.Samantha – who still runs an escort agency, has written two books and is a regular news.com.au columnist – has now shifted her focus to counselling for relationships and substance abuse.
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