Her father bought two burial plots, one for her and one for himself

For sixteen years Jessie thought she was the exception. Too smart to overdose, too careful for the people around her to become a real danger. Then one overdose took the argument away from her.

She goes through the whole arc: a violent relationship in an apartment that looked perfect from the street, nearly dying of a septic infection during COVID, a police chase in a blacked-out Hellcat, and house arrest before she finally surrendered in 2022.

We get into what most recovery conversations step around. Why she refuses to reset her clock after a relapse, the shame that stops people coming back at all, and what her parents' tough love actually felt like from the inside. She runs a sober living home now and started a clothing line, Broken Bandit.