No Scandal is Complete Without a Drug Abuse Angle

SIIIIIGGGGHHHH

This just gets sadder and sadder…
Ashley Youmans, aka Ashley Alexandra Dupre, aka “Kristen”:

… writes that she left home at 17 to begin “my odyssey to New York.”
“It was my decision, and I’ve never looked back,” she writes. “Left my hometown. Left a broken family. Left abuse. Left an older brother who had already split. Left and learned what it was like to have everything, and lose it, again and again.
“Learned what it was like to wake up one day and have the people you care about most gone. I have been alone. I have abused drugs. I have been broke and homeless. But, I survived, on my own. I am here, in NY because of my music.”