Quotes of the month: a real estate maven and “Full House” star Jodie Sweetin (maybe this time) gets sober.
Quotes of the month:
“I guess all the rumors our parents told us about drugs and alcohol are true. I was just dying an alcoholic death….I had to be putting poison in me 24/7. It went on for quite awhile.” So said Kevin Green, would-be Mammoth Lakes, California king of real estate, now 20 months sober and making amends to those he harmed. On a personal note, back in late 2005 my wife and I traded two of our three overpriced Mammoth vacation rentals for real estate outside the bubble states (Tennessee, to be precise—but the idea was to go anywhere else). We kept the third because it’s very cute (and available for rent), we love Mammoth and I figured, hey, I could be wrong about the bubble bursting. My concern over the likelihood of the Mammoth bubble bursting badly increased when I watched Green enter into contracts to purchase several of Mammoth’s better-known restaurants in 2006—and quickly get arrested for writing a $34,000 bad check for one of them, followed by a collapse of all the deals. I knew this was just another kiss of (or sign of) death to the local market—and that the bubble had been largely fueled by alcoholic egomania. Thanks for helping to confirm my suspicions, Kevin. And good luck in your new life.
“I was back to partying…spending seven hundred dollars a week on meth [and] coke.” So writes former “Full House” child star Jodie Sweetin, 27, in her newly released book, unSweetined, in which she admits to downing a bag of coke right before one of the interviews she did on her “sobriety tour” in which she spoke at college campuses touting sobriety while high as a kite. Her cop-husband of five years didn’t suspect her of meth addiction while married (“He had no idea”); the audience, including college professors, either didn’t suspect or just didn’t speak up, while she made the money to pay for her $700-a-week addiction. “I thought for sure that one of the professors would take one look at me and kick me out. But none did. They wanted to hear about the trials and tribulations of Jodie Sweetin, or at least the Jodie Sweetin I had created.” They also don’t know what to look for to detect a relapse, such as rude, abrupt and inconsiderate behaviors that she was no doubt exhibiting while touring.