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Priscilla Presley's lad Navarone Garcia opened up astir his struggles with addiction, admitting that astatine 1 constituent helium was utilizing drugs "40 times a day."
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Navarone Garcia is getting candid astir his sobriety journey.
The lone lad of Priscilla Presley and her ex Marco Garibaldi precocious shared that helium began taking drugs as a teen and however he's flooded his addiction.
"It started with weed successful precocious schoolhouse and, by the clip I was 16, 17, I had kinda tried everything," Navarone told Entertainment Tonight successful an interview shared May 1, adding that erstwhile it came to utilizing heroin, helium "didn't person a occupation with it until 2015. All of a abrupt I conscionable noticed a difference."
Recalling however his withdrawals from the cause were "insane," the 37-year-old admitted helium got the constituent wherever helium was utilizing drugs astir "40 times a day."
"That's a batch connected the assemblage to handle," helium continued, "and it became intolerable and unsustainable."
And Priscilla—who is besides ma to the precocious Lisa Marie Presley with ex Elvis Presley—was determination to witnesser each the stages of Navarone's cause use.
"She's been determination for the opening [and] end, and I ever [tried] to support it from her 'cause it's hard to spot idiosyncratic not lone struggling but besides erstwhile [they're] trying to stop, it's not casual to watch," he explained. "I deliberation that's the hardest portion to ticker erstwhile they're trying truthful hard and struggling to stop. So I would effort to support it from her."
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The Them Guns musician explained his cause usage truly came to a caput successful 2020.
"It conscionable got to the constituent wherever I was doing nothing," helium said. "I knew it wasn't going immoderate further and determination was lone 1 result if I continued going down that road. I could consciousness myself getting person to the borderline of not coming back."
That realization that pushed him to marque a change and he was capable to thin connected Priscilla for enactment arsenic helium started his travel to sobriety. He added, "She was astonishing the full way."
These days, he's focused connected his euphony vocation and is working connected a memoir that he hopes volition assistance uplift different struggling with addiction.
"It feels truthful overmuch amended for yourself to marque different radical consciousness better," he noted. "I don't spot wherefore truthful galore radical are trying to bring different radical down. I'd similar to get much radical to enactment different radical arsenic well."
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