[tense music]
Being in a relationship is difficult enough.
Add to it addiction, and you have
a perfect recipe for a tornado to come that you're
not gonna be able to stop.
There's that old saying, misery loves company.
I can't see it being anything other than a nightmare.
The worst hell you have ever had in your entire life.
[tense music]
Couples in their addiction just tear each other apart.
You were done with that.
We were done with that, and you brought it back!
The dishonesty.
(Bleep).
I'm going.
I'm done.
- The manipulation. - The fighting.
I got these.
It was your fault!
And the codependency is deep.
The only thing harder than fighting an addiction
is fighting codependency at the same time.
[tense music]
They're playing that dance of death,
and they're killing each other.
[tense music]
I met Garrett because he was supplying me with drugs.
We've been together for almost four years.
- Shantell? - Hmm?
OK, she's already slumped.
So much of their relationship is focused on that drug.
There's no way of telling how much
fentanyl is in these pills.
Garrett has been addicted to drugs for upwards of 10 years.
Shantell has probably been addicted to drugs six years.
How did you even get that one off of me?
Dummy, you still have yours.
Our addiction just makes us fight way too much.
At least hold my [bleep] hand, dude.
[bleep] you.
Their relationship has literally
been founded in drug addiction.
[tense music]
And I'm gonna ask you, please, accept this help.
This is my dying wish, for you to fight for your life as well.
I need to go step outside.
No, I don't want to hear any bull-[bleep]
you guys have to say.
So get away from me!
Staying on this track, they're either gonna go to jail or die.
[tense music]
My name is Garrett.
I'm 29.
And my name is Shantell, and I'm 26,
and we both live in Omak, Washington.
(SINGING) Skidamarink-a-dink-a dink-a,
dink-a, skidamarink-a-doo.
I love you.
I love you in the morning--
(SINGING) --and in the afternoon.
You don't want to skidamarink-a-dink with me?
No.
Garrett is my boyfriend, and we've been
together for almost four years.
- Hi. - Hello.
Hello.
He brings happiness to my life.
[chuckles] And he supports me in,
like, whatever I want to do.
Can I get a 12-ounce white chocolate mocha?
Yeah.
What I love about Shantell is that we can be ourselves.
She is my best friend.
We do everything together, and without her in my life,
it would be a lot more depressing.
Thank you.
Things would be a lot harder.
Right now, me and Garrett are addicted to fentanyl and meth.
Garrett and Shantell definitely fuel each other
in the whole situation.
I don't know if they're addicted to each other's company
or more so just the using, but I don't
believe Garrett and Shantell would
be together without the drugs.
Dude, at least walk and hold my [bleep] hand, dude.
[bleep] you!
Dude, why do you always got to [bleep] argue?
Then don't be with me.
I don't want to, not when you're [bleep] being like this,
no.
OK, then we're done.
I don't know what Shantell sees in Garrett.
I've asked myself that a million times.
I've even asked her that, but I never get a answer.
I think right now, it just is someone to do drugs with.
Piece of [bleep].
[bleep] you.
I'm [bleep] done with you.
I'm done with this house.
When there's tension in our relationship,
it's usually over drugs.
Like, usually being out of drugs, being stressed out,
like, how we're gonna get money to get drugs.
[tense music]
It takes over your life.
Once you're using it, everything revolves around fentanyl.
We use anywhere from 10 to 20 pills a piece every day.
[tense music]
We need to have it in order to do anything.
To function normally, not be withdrawing or sick.
We also use meth, and we probably
do about a half gram a day.
We just use meth to wake ourselves up
because the fentanyl pills pass us out so much.
[tense music]
I believe Garrett has been addicted to some form of drugs
for upwards of 10 years.
I think Garrett's been numbing the pain of a lot
of things he's experienced.
And I just don't think Garrett has the coping skills
to face a lot of the traumatic issues
that have happened in his life.
Physical changes I've noticed in Garrett?
Definitely his gray hair.
He's pretty much completely gray now.
He's skinnier.
And his drug use is on a steady downhill slope.
[tense music]
Shantell's never came out and said exactly what she's doing.
I thought it was just THC, marijuana, so on and so forth.
I had no idea that it was progressively getting worse.
Shantell?
Hmm?
Here.
OK, she's already slumped.
When I first tried fentanyl, that was probably, like,
the highest I've ever been.
It just kind of made me stop thinking
about everything for a minute that was going on in my life.
[tense music]
I've noticed a lot of changes in Shantell's
physical appearance because of the drug use.
The weight gain, the weight loss.
She does have a lot of little sores and stuff on her face,
and her teeth are pretty much gone.
Yeah, it makes me really embarrassed.
It sucks.
[chuckles]
It's pissing her off right now.
I can tell. - Yeah.
[chuckles]
The last three years, Shantell's
been arrested at least two times that I'm aware of,
and she ended up with a felony for identity theft
for check cashing.
To pay for drugs, Shantell has done a lot of rotten things.
She's stolen money from me.
She's stolen money from the whole family.
I mean, God only knows what she's done for money.
I don't like to think about it.
35 bucks.
I spent the rest of the hundred and freaking 20
that I got from my mom.
I help Garrett and Shantell financially every month,
even though I'm just on a fixed income.
I give them money to do yard work,
and then that doesn't get done.
I think this is their last chance.
I don't think they can make it much
further if they don't get help.
[tense music]
Their relationship is not a healthy one.
Staying on this track, you're either gonna go to jail or die.
[tense music]
There it is.
I really like playing basketball.
Basketball was, like, my favorite sport
once I started playing it.
I should have started playing a lot sooner.
I started playing for Omak High School.
I played up until my 11th grade year.
Garrett excels at sports.
I really thought Garrett, when he was younger,
would become some type of athlete.
But he just ended up tucking it away.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God, dude.
Dude--
I've only known Shantell in addiction.
- Yeah. - So I don't--
I don't know.
It's in the car.
The sickness really [bleep] sucks.
I wish I would have never taken that first hit
and gotten into it.
[tense music]
It's not good.
It's not the life I wanted to live.
[tense music]
Garrett was a cute baby.
He was big.
He was 8 and 1/2 pounds.
Garrett and I were always basically hand-in-hand
everywhere we went.
Hunting, fishing, hiking, being out in the mountains.
We learned a lot of stuff from my dad,
and it got us to be a lot closer.
But life was pretty rough, I guess
you could say, growing up.
It wasn't normal at all.
[chuckles]
Their dad and I had a very volatile relationship.
There was physical abuse.
There was mental abuse.
But we also used together.
My mom's also an addict, and my dad was, too.
Addiction was pretty prevalent in our lives.
Ever since I could remember, they
were both addicted to cocaine.
The cocaine is what destroyed our relationship.
And Garrett was four and a half when their dad and I broke up.
Once my parents split up, we moved around quite a bit.
Going house to house, school to school for over eight years.
It was unstable.
It made me feel pretty scared.
I needed my parents to be there more for us.
It wasn't normal, that's for sure.
[tense music]
And I got into smoking weed around 13 or so
because my mom smoked every day.
I even found their cocaine once and tried that when
she had one of her slip-ups.
I actually thought that I hid that from them.
But as they got older, my boys would snoop around in my things
and find it.
I eventually ended up starting smoking weed with her, too.
That got me into trying out other things.
[tense music]
Basketball and baseball would have been his route
into college, but after he joined high school sports
and started hanging out with the older kids,
he was introduced to opioids and the painkillers.
When I was a junior in high school,
OxyContin got introduced to me through the guys
on the basketball team that were really good.
So we were thinking it was cool.
That's when I got addicted.
Like, at the end of my junior year,
I was smoking OxyContin close to every day.
His grades went down.
His attendance and sports started to go down.
I barely graduated high school.
Yeah, it was all downhill from there.
After he graduated from high school,
he was enrolled in community college,
but his drug usage had increased so much
that he didn't go to college.
When Garrett was 19 years old, our dad passed away.
Yeah, it was [bleep] really sad.
Really hit me hard.
I mean, we were pretty close.
We spent a lot of time together because I
lived with him at the time.
He would always tell me, like, when he'd be,
like, passing out drunk how much he loved me and my brother.
Yeah, it affected me pretty--
pretty bad.
It was just almost more than we could take.
And Garrett's drug use was markedly getting worse
after his dad passed away.
I guess I just didn't want to feel anything anymore.
I was really messed up in the head.
I was really sad, so I just wanted to do nothing
but numb the pain.
And after that, through the years,
I've had to bury a lot of friends,
a lot of family members.
Having so many losses back to back really takes a toll.
The way I've always coped is just numbing my feelings.
I worry about Garrett every day.
Garrett and Shantell both thrive off of each other's using.
So eventually, this is gonna kill them.
[tense music]
All right, well, let's get going.
[tense music]
Garrett and Shantell have nothing in common,
I think, besides their drug use.
Garrett and Shantell feed off each other, enable each other.
This is what I needed for today.
So much of their time and energy together
is spent on that drug, focused on that drug.
How are we gonna get it? Where are we gonna get it?
How are we gonna pay for it?
Day after day.
[tense music]
I just can't see her and Garrett continue
to do what they're doing it without ending up
either in prison or dead.
[tense music]
[dog barking]
Right now, me and Garrett are living together in a home
owned by his family friend.
She's like, really lenient when we don't have, like,
enough for rent.
Like, she'll let us do, like, work for her,
like, out at her house, like cleaning out her chicken coop
or, you know, like, stuff like that.
We've been living here for, I think, like five months now.
Previously, we were living at my mom's house,
and a situation happened there to where
we couldn't live there anymore.
I let her and Garrett live at the house,
and then a lot of things would end up missing,
and I just couldn't deal with the drugs and stuff.
I just couldn't watch it anymore.
The best part about living here, I think,
is just, like, knowing we have a roof over our head.
Like, we have our own place that we can call home.
That house is a dangerous situation.
It's rundown.
You know, those toys and the garbage
bags around the front yard.
There's different people coming in and out,
lots of cars parked out front.
She just lives probably six or eight blocks away,
but I don't go anywhere near that place.
It's just a bunch of druggies and creepy people.
Yeah, I definitely miss having a stable home
where you don't have to worry about all the people always
coming in and out of the house or, like,
if a fight is gonna break out or all my stuff getting stolen.
I didn't have to worry about all that stuff.
Before we fall asleep, we'll lock our door because,
like, people came in and just, like,
while I was sleeping and stole our phone, like, off the bed
and just, like, stuff like that.
What makes this room feel like home to me,
I think just all the pictures I have,
different memories and stuff.
It just makes me feel good.
These are pictures of me and my older
sister and my older brother.
We don't see each other often, but we're
all still really close.
I never dreamed that Shantell would be like she is now
and all the problems and just not
care about anything or anybody.
That's just not her.
[tense music]
Shantell was a happy...a happy girl.
My relationship with my mom was pretty good.
She made sure that we got, like, what we wanted
or what we needed and was always there, for the most part.
But my dad, he hasn't been in my life since I was probably,
I think, like six months old.
It was just better that he not be in the picture.
[tense music]
Me and my mom raised Shantell.
My mom was working a lot.
She'd drop us off at my grandma's house.
So, like, me and my grandma were really, really close.
She was always around.
Grandma's been in her life a lot.
She went to school plays, Christmas concerts, stuff
like that.
So she was very much involved in her everyday life.
Shantell did really good in school.
In high school, she was involved in cheerleading and volleyball.
She's pretty social.
When I was a teenager, I was around alcohol and weed
most of the time, but I didn't use harder drugs.
When Shantell was about 16, she started dating a guy who
she seemed pretty happy with.
We had a lot in common.
He was really supportive, and, like, I loved him.
I graduated high school early, and we moved to Spokane.
And I had a really good career going for myself.
And I was really happy.
Everything was working out the way it was supposed to.
She was doing really good for herself.
I was pretty proud of her.
Shantell had some pretty big hopes.
She wanted to do something with her life,
and, you know, early on, I told her, anything you want to do,
I'll help you get there.
Just put your mind to it.
Me and my boyfriend were together for about five years.
And then when I just had turned 21, he ended up cheating on me
in our house with my friend while I was sleeping.
Their relationship coming to an end impacted her a lot.
It felt horrible.
Like, it was really hard to, like, accept the fact that, you
know, when you're with someone for so long and then stuff
like that happens, like, unexpectedly.
Like, I just felt really heartbroken.
[tense music]
Her grandma was her world.
She'd tell her grandma things that she'd never tell her mom.
It was really hard losing her.
Sorry.
Sorry, I get super emotional when I talk about my grandma.
Just her whole life got turned upside down.
But I think it was only like a month and a half
after she passed away that I tried heroin.
I had this one friend come over, and she was into heroin.
We were pretty close friends, and she made it
look like it wasn't that bad.
I was still, like, dealing with a breakup.
I had just lost my grandmother.
I was just feeling really hurt and just
wanted to forget everything.
When I took the first hit of heroin, I felt, like, numb.
From there, I just started doing it every day after that.
Shantell, during this time, I seen her shut down.
It got really deep, dark.
And her drug use was progressively getting worse.
And before you know it, it was too late.
She had gotten herself in trouble, lost her job.
She ended up homeless.
So I moved back to Omak.
It was harder to get heroin here in Omak,
so I slowly just switched over to fentanyl.
At that point, I was like, well, everything
can't get much more messed up.
And, like, I slowly just ended up losing everything.
I was hoping that maybe it would
get tough enough where she'd smarten up
and say, hey, I need to--
something needs to change.
When I moved back to Omak, I met Garrett because he
was supplying me with heroin.
Garrett gave me the heroin.
I did too big of a shot, and I don't really remember much.
Here's this girl that I just invited over to my house,
and she starts turning blue.
I started freaking out.
It scared the [bleep] out of me.
And I tossed her in the tub and hit her with cold water,
and it made her come back to.
And the only thing I could think of to do
was to get her, like, heart going fast
again, which was by doing meth.
So yeah, she came back to us in a bunch of soaked clothes.
[chuckles]
He's the one that actually saved my life.
Then afterward, he comforted me, and I
could tell, like, he was really freaked
out about the situation.
It made me realize what life would be like without her
and how much I liked her and I wanted to be with her.
When Garrett and Shantell first started dating,
I automatically knew it was not a good thing.
Garrett was already heavily using at that time,
and I suspected her of also being a user.
So it was just going to be a codependent relationship.
My family feels like we are definitely
dependent on one another.
Yeah, and I'm not gonna argue with that.
[chuckles]
But we see each other growing old together, having kids.
We talk a lot about having kids and getting
clean together and living life like we're supposed to,
like adults.
Garrett and Shantell started dating already under addiction.
So who knows whether it's the drugs or their actual feelings?
I don't want them together because Shantell needs to worry
about herself right now.
I don't think she needs any relationship
to feed her addiction.
I don't trust Garrett.
I don't like Garrett.
And I don't see him in my future or my daughter's future.
I just don't.
At the end of the day, we still love each other,
and we go to bed happy.
[tense music]
All right, there's more Malt-O-Meal up here.
Garrett and Shantell are living with his two best
friends, Lane, then Adrian.
Adrian and Lane are also addicted to drugs.
You guys are [bleep] high.
I don't know what they do.
I mean, none of them work.
Do they just sit around and get high or what?
It's pretty sad.
[tense music]
That house, it's full of a bunch
of users that are all codependent on each other,
just using in there.
There is nothing that's gonna get better in that house.
I do feel like this is Garrett and Shantell's last shot.
[tense music]
Garrett, his two best friends, Adrian and Lane,
and Shantell all live in the same home
and are addicted to drugs.
I think having Adrian and Lane in the house
makes it better just because we're all there for each other.
You know, if you get that one pill that
has too much fentanyl in it, and you're not ever
gonna know until you smoke it.
[tense music]
Adrian's mom, Marlene, owns the home that we live in.
I honestly don't know why they're allowed to stay there.
As a homeowner, I know that I wouldn't want my home,
you know, to be used as a drug house.
[tense music]
Mm-hmm.
Oh, [bleep], my mom called 36 minutes ago.
Hey, Mom.
Hi.
We're gonna be heading out there here pretty soon, OK?
OK.
OK, we'll be up there shortly.
OK.
Babe, jump in the shower real quick.
Shantell and I do fight a lot, and it's usually over drugs.
Even throwing [bleep] back and forth at each other.
It gets pretty bad.
[tense music]
I know what I want.
Are those guys on their way?
Garrett and I get together probably about once a month,
and I usually take both him and Shantell out
to eat so we can have a little family time together
and kind of keep up with what's going on.
It's kind of a ritual for us.
Hey.
Hi, son, how's it going?
Right on.
Man. Me too.
Hello.
Hi, Shantell.
Growing up, my mom was always a really good mother.
She always held a job.
She partied and stuff a lot, too, but she took care of us
really good.
How's your mama doing?
Better.
That's good.
Of my three kids that I have, he's the one
that comes and helps me.
He helps me keeping my place clean at times.
And if something is broken, he can usually fix it.
And I love him so much for that.
Have you talked to Von at all?
Garrett's relationship right now with his brother, Von,
is nonexistent.
Von has chosen to not speak with us.
Won't answer his phone.
I don't know if he's blocked Garrett, but he's blocked me.
We can't go to his house.
I haven't seen Von for a year.
I know that Von is upset because he knows of the drugs that
go on and that I'm still in the picture with you
and I will help you, you know, and--
I believe my mom enables Garrett.
You know, there's not a real-- a whole lot of pushback
there to get them some help.
I can't not help you, because you're my baby.
It's like hard to cut the cord.
I help them because I love them and I want
them not to be on the streets.
I could do that, too, but you know what?
It's killing me.
It's not right.
No, it's not.
I don't know, [bleep].
It is what it is.
Garrett loves his brother, and I know
it hurts him that his brother thinks that way about him.
Nice seeing you.
Love you.
Oh, yeah, I told you you could.
Yeah.
With him not working, there's definitely a chance that he
is receiving money from my mom.
And I feel she does not want him to get help, in some way.
So I disconnected from that side of my family.
Thank you.
[tense music]
I got a couple of blues.
These are 30 pills.
These are what we're addicted to.
There's no way of telling how much fentanyl
is in these pills, and if you don't have a tolerance,
it's very dangerous, because you can overdose very easily.
They have hot pills, too, and they're called hot pills,
you know?
There's like every one in five pills is, like--
has five times more fentanyl than, you know, the other ones.
Somebody who has no tolerance would OD on them.
Or if you're drinking alcohol, like, it amplifies it big time.
You know what I'm saying?
It's like Russian roulette.
We're gonna smoke these and get lit.
[chuckles] All right.
Baby?
Shantell?
Hmm?
Here.
OK, she's already slumped.
Mm-mm.
Mm-mm?
[chuckles]
I don't know.
I haven't really felt like I wanted--
like I want to get clean.
I mean, I had a lot of [bleep]-up [bleep] happen in my life,
and I've just been really [bleep] careless and not really
giving two [bleep] anymore.
Why would you do that?
How'd you even get that one off of me?
I didn't, dummy.
You still have yours.
Then so what is this?
This is the three that I just went and got.
Our addiction just makes us fight way too much
and have a lot of negativity in our relationship.
The three?
Yeah, I only got three.
Why?
Because someone else is gonna be
coming over with some [bleep] skills later,
so calm the [bleep] down.
Shantell and Garrett, even if they did get clean,
I don't think would be good.
I mean, they're always fighting and arguing.
I think Garrett cared for Shantell early on.
Now, I think he's just using it as a handicap crutch
because they're in the same scenario.
Yep.
Nope.
Shut the [bleep] up, dude.
Quit being a [bleep] bitch, dude.
Their relationship, so far, I haven't seen
much positive come out of it.
Gosh damn.
Why do you always got to start some [bleep] [bleep], dude?
Like--
I have no [bleep] idea what you did with it, dude.
[tense music]
Zach, my friend, we definitely have our hands full.
- Very. - Yeah.
Very full.
My name is Mike Diamond.
I'm a certified interventionist.
I've been working with addicts for 14 years.
And I've been an interventionist for 12 years.
We have Shantell and Garrett, who are a couple.
And they are living with Garrett's childhood
friend, Lane and Adrian.
And now all four of them are using
together in the same house.
Okay.
My name is Zach Livingston, and I'm an interventionist.
We're here to intervene on Garrett and Shantell
and hopefully save their life.
Didn't Garrett bring Shantell back to life or something?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so here's the short and sweet.
So Garrett gets Shantell high.
She overdoses and crashes out.
Garrett, to swoop in and try to save the day,
just starts shooting her up with meth in some kind of hope
to, like, jumpstart her heart.
And here's the thing.
Like, it worked, and the story goes
is when she opened her eyes, they
was-- they was love at first sight,
and they've just been inseparable ever since.
- Oh, my God. - Yeah.
Like something out of Pulp Fiction?
Yeah.
Garrett and Shantell have not known a sober day
the entire time that they've been together,
which means the only way they know how to do anything
is under the influence.
This is not love.
This is enablement.
This is enmeshment.
And this is just complete fear of leaving the other.
It's the house on the right, isn't it?
Yeah, this blue one on the corner.
There's so many layers to peel back on this one.
Like, this whole dynamic between all of them
is just based in death, trauma, and rampant addiction.
It's quite a challenge because Garrett and Shantell
are codependent on each other.
So if one person doesn't go to treatment,
it could trigger the next person not to go.
Are you OK if I take Shantell and you take Garrett?
- Let's run that. - OK.
We got a lot of work to do.
We have a lot of work to do, but if we don't do it, Shantell
and Garrett, they're gonna die.
There's not even a question.
[tense music]
You ready?
Mm-hmm.
I think our tolerance is pretty high.
Yeah, the average person, like,
if they took one of the size of hits that we took,
they would probably--
Overdose.
Yeah, overdose.
[chuckles]
Go.
He doesn't ever think that's gonna happen because he
thinks he's so smart.
No, I-- I-- I would never do that.
The people that are ODing and dying are dah, dah, dah.
I'm not that dumb, you know, and you just never know.
[tense music]
I'm going to Garrett's family right now.
I'm gonna meet with Von and Cassie, his brother
and his brother's fiancee.
I'm hoping to learn about Garrett's upbringing
and his childhood years.
I want to know about, you know, the relationship
that he has with his mother and why Garrett only
has Von and Cassie on Team Garrett
to be involved in the intervention.
You must be Von. - Yes.
- Hey man, I'm, Zach Livingston. - Hey.
First of all, one, thanks for having
me and setting aside the time.
We are in a life-or-death situation right now.
Yes.
That's where the urgency comes in.
OK, how does this start?
Was mom and dad alcoholic?
Or were there drugs in the home?
Definitely alcoholics, yes.
Both of them?
- Yes, both parents. - OK.
Yes, growing up.
Can you recall around like what age you guys
started to see some of that?
9, 10 years old.
So that would make him seven and a half, eight and half?
- Yeah, yes. - OK.
Is she still drinking?
Is she still-- is there-- is she using anything,
whether it's alcohol, narcotics, whatever?
So she's definitely drinking.
I don't know about on the narcotics side of things.
OK.
Currently, I do drink alcohol a few nights a week.
If we go out to dinner, I'll have
a nice glass of wine or two.
But that's pretty much the extent of it.
And for other drugs in my life right now, it's just marijuana.
She's got an active role in his life right now.
Yes.
They're both very codependent on each other.
- OK. - Yeah.
- So there's enablement. - Yeah.
Yes.
When you look at Garrett and what he saw in growing up--
alcohol abuse, drug abuse, physical, verbal,
emotional abuse, divorce.
I mean, he had the deck stacked against him
since the very start.
So what we see as toxic, what we see
as unhealthy in his relationship with Shantell,
he sees it as normal.
So where's Mom in all this?
Is she gonna be a part on intervention day?
At this point, I don't know if that's going to happen
or how she would react.
Mm-hmm.
Is there any moment that you could magnify
in your head where you're like, OK, here's
where I saw a turn with Garrett?
Just a lot of his friends passing.
Who-- who passed and how'd they go?
When Garrett was 19 years old, he was in a car wreck,
and the driver of the car passed away.
Garrett and two other girls took some Molly,
and then they went driving around.
And the girl was driving fast and didn't make the corner,
and they went over a 285-foot embankment.
They were all thrown from the vehicle.
Garrett was thrown up into a tree somewhere.
The driver, she passed.
She died.
We were pretty close friends.
We did a lot of things together growing up.
I switched from pills to heroin after my car accident.
It was pretty-- pretty bad, though, pretty traumatic.
And then after that, my dad died.
How?
[clears throat]
Take your time.
It's OK.
So, yeah, my dad passing--
he was at a friend's house the night before.
And he was drinking because he was still a heavy drinker.
And it was winter.
And he ended up slipping off the porch and broke his neck.
I was really messed up in the head.
I was really sad, so I just wanted to do nothing but numb
the pain and just started using a lot more,
and that was actually around the time I started shooting up.
What came next?
Five years ago, he had his best friend, Alex, overdose.
What did you see from Garrett after Alex died?
It's just been a steady progression down.
OK.
And that's when I had, like, the serious talk with him
and, like, hey, like, you're seeing your friends die
from this stuff now.
Like, it's-- you know, you can die from this.
Did that bring him closer or push him away further?
I think it might have just pushed him away more.
OK.
Well, I think after his death, they really all just
really numbed themselves. - Yeah.
Exactly. Like, it's been--
It was down--
--like, the worst it's ever been.
--really extra downhill from there.
How worried about him are you right now?
This is the last straw.
Like, he's gonna die from this.
I've told him that.
You've seen your friends die from this.
Like, this is gonna kill you.
Garrett has experienced a lot of trauma,
and it's all been back to back.
And what Garrett has done is use it as fuel to the fire.
I mean, it's the perfect reason for him to continue
to do what he's doing.
Like, don't you guys know what I've been through?
Like, that kind of mentality.
Ultimately, that's the same kind of mentality
that's gonna kill him.
[tense music]
Shantell called about a hour ago,
said she was gonna stop by.
I told her, you know, I'm not always gonna be here,
and we need to spend some time together and talk
about things because, you know, I really
want to see you get some help.
So I'm just waiting for her to get here.
I normally have to wait.
She'll say, I'll be there, and two
or three days later, you know?
I've waited for a week.
And then all that time, I sit and worry.
She just lives six blocks down the road.
That's what's so hard is that she's so close,
but yet, she's so far away, and I know what goes on over there.
It just sometimes drives me crazy.
She doesn't want to make things harder,
and sometimes it does get hard.
I mean, because it's just a bad situation.
Hello.
Hi, Mom.
Long time, no see.
How are you feeling?
I'm good.
These days, Garrett is not allowed in our house at all.
If he even attempted to knock on the door,
I don't think he would get far.
Did you have dinner?
No.
I know you're always hungry when you come over.
[chuckles]
I think my addiction causes a lot of stress on my family.
But my relationship with my mom currently is pretty good.
I know she wants to see me clean and whatnot.
But I think for the most part, it's pretty good.
What do you guys do over there?
Nothing.
Just watch DVDs.
I'll be glad when you get some help and get your own place.
Well, I just think if you got out of the situation
that you're in, you might have a better outlook.
You always just kind of avoid what's really going on.
What's scary is, I mean, you could smoke something
and be dead in a minute.
When I look at Shantell, it just breaks my heart
because I see somebody whose life
could be totally different if she would just accept the help.
I'd like to see you do something to get better.
So if something does happen to me,
I would feel a little better knowing
that you're gonna be OK.
Well, you think you can work on it?
Yeah, definitely.
I think I'm done.
OK.
Thank you for dinner.
So it's really hard when she goes out that door.
I love you.
Love you, Mom.
She'll probably go home and get
high and just forget about everything
we talked about, you know?
You know, it just scares me.
She needs to get some help.
Me and Garrett, we're addicted to fentanyl and meth.
When Garrett and Shantell first started dating,
I automatically knew it was just going to be
a codependent relationship.
How did you even get that one off of me?
I didn't, dummy.
You still have yours.
I do not think Shantell and Garrett would be together
if they weren't using drugs.
Sorry, I get super emotional when
I talk about my grandmother.
When my grandma had passed away, Shantell shut down,
and her drug use was progressively getting worse.
Garrett's experienced a lot of trauma,
and it's all been back to back.
It started with the car crash where the driver died.
Then his father passed away.
What Garrett has done is use it as fuel to the fire.
That's the same kind of mentality
that's gonna kill him.
Where's Mom in all this?
They're both very codependent on each other.
So there's enablement?
Yes.
- Oh, yeah. - We got a lot of work to do.
But if we don't do it, Shantell and Garrett
are gonna die.
There's not even a question.
[tense music]
So right now, I'm on my way to meet Shantell's mom,
Peggy, and Shantell's sister.
I'm really interested in getting Peggy's take on Shantell's
relationship with Garrett, because Shantell
was in a relationship when she was in Spokane.
And that didn't go well.
And then she started using.
Hi. - Hi.
I'm Jody. - Mike Diamond.
Lovely to meet you. - Nice to you.
Thank you.
So I really want to find out if having these bad relationships
and then relapsing is a pattern and hopefully
break that pattern.
So I'm here today just to ask you a few questions
so it'll help me construct a better
intervention to help you. - OK.
- OK? - Yeah.
OK.
Does she talk to you about her using or anything?
No, she's never.
- How about you? - No.
What do you think she's using?
You know, I really don't know.
I'm thinking that they're smoking pills or something.
Yeah, fentanyl.
Yeah.
They're going pretty hard.
It's deadly.
What would trigger her to just take such drastic measures?
Well, my mom had passed away.
And she was very close with her, right?
Oh, yeah, because we pretty much lived with my mom.
Mom basically was their other mom.
And just, like, her whole life just
went upside down and sideways.
That's when her personality changed.
Yeah.
Friends changed.
So what's the story with Garrett?
I don't like Garrett.
Yeah.
I didn't start out that way.
You know, I wanted to help him, and he took advantage of that.
And she lived with Garrett here?
Yes, that was a nightmare.
You know, she came to me and said that, you know,
Garrett didn't have anywhere to go.
Yeah.
And things just didn't go well at all.
They were using, had people in and out.
And, well, of course, you know, they always
had their bedroom door locked.
You knock on the door, you know, open the door.
Are you dead or alive in there?
You know, what's-- - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
--you know, what are you-- what's going on?
And my youngest brother ended up kicking the door in,
and then they got into it physically.
You know, and then I throwed them out.
And what about you?
What's going on?
Well, I just got out of the hospital.
It's been a week?
I found out I had cancer.
Oh, God.
I'm sorry.
The last few months have been just--
Horrible.
Yeah.
I'm always nagging Shantell about her going to treatment,
especially now that I'm sick, because it
just worries me that I-- you know, I'm not gonna be there.
With my mom, there's definitely, like,
a sense of, like, urgency, and it makes me really stressed out
because I don't think anyone's gonna get
clean until they're ready to.
Because you're sick, she can, in her mind,
feel trapped, like but I can't leave because you're sick.
Mm-hmm, and she's said that before.
Ah, see?
I have to be there for mom.
No, you need to set a boundary.
Yeah. I told her.
I said, you know, if I have to fight,
you're gonna have to fight.
You know?
I got to go through chemo.
I got to want to get better.
Yeah.
Say, OK, you got six months to live.
My wish would be for you to get better
so that I could leave this world knowing
that you're gonna be OK.
If I were to die next month and Shantell--
Wasn't sober and healthy in herself.
Yeah, I mean, it would--
I wouldn't be able to let go.
I mean--
Yeah, we need to help them.
Yeah.
If they stay together, they're not gonna make it.
Yeah.
[tense music]
How come you're driving?
Of course, we're going straight there.
Be right back.
Alex was, like, one of my best friends.
But he overdosed and passed away five years ago today.
Shantell and I are going to Alex's memorial
with Lane, Adrian, and our families.
Excuse me.
[tense music]
[somber music]
I have known Alex since kindergarten.
I had heard from a friend that Alex had overdosed
and that he was gone.
It was one of the worst things that-- that's
ever happened to me, probably.
Well, I want to thank you guys all for coming today.
I know it was hard, and I know it's cold.
This sucks without Shantell here.
We do everything together.
I mean, it's just a lot more depressing and a lot harder.
I'm sure glad you guys came.
Garrett, he hasn't really grieved or really dealt
with it, like, emotionally.
So he started using drugs a lot more.
You know, that makes us fight, and that's just
too much to handle sometimes.
It was good seeing you.
I thought when Garrett's friends were dying,
he might snap out of it, you know?
I was like, oh, my God.
That could happen to me, too, but it's not.
I love you, too.
The drug use is getting worse.
[tense music]
Seeing one of my best friends lying there dead like that,
yeah, I really don't want things to end up turning
out like that with myself.
Definitely wanting to start doing better in life
and actually live, you know, and not
have to frigging worry about supporting this habit anymore.
Sorry, Mom.
I don't care.
I'm gonna smoke this.
Sorry.
Yes, I'm afraid of death.
I think about death a lot because there's so much death
going on around me all the time.
But I can't stop using fentanyl.
Using feels pretty amazing.
It feels like all my problems have gone away.
Garrett's number one priority is his addiction
I'm afraid he's going to get some bad dope and O.D.
And that's scary.
[tense music]
How do you want to do it?
Well, I want to do Garrett and Shantell together.
That way, we can do the preintervention together.
That way, we can have them set up
to do an intervention together because I do really
want to use, like, the codependency between Garrett
and Shantell in our favor.
From what you've just told me, we
also have to stand strong to make sure that Garrett's mom--
Mm-hmm.
--can't cause any interference there.
Yep.
We know she drinks.
We don't to what extent.
But I believe that she's probably drinking more
than people are letting on.
There's a big level of codependency and enablement
between Garrett and Connie.
And it goes both ways.
They're in communication daily.
Like, Connie has emotional pull and leverage.
Unless Connie says, I love you, I support this,
I think you should get healthy--
unless we get that from her, I don't think Garrett's going.
You're saying that Garrett wouldn't go without Connie?
You don't think Shantell going is enough leverage?
In and of itself, no, I don't think it's enough.
We need his mom, Connie, involved.
This is my plan.
We leave Connie out of the preintervention.
OK.
We don't include her at all, because then we
have a whole day gap between the time we do a preintervention
and an intervention, and there's a whole lot of opportunity
for Connie to go backdooring us and going straight to Garrett
and letting him know exactly what's going on.
Right, right.
So we don't include her in any way,
shape, form, or fashion until the day of the intervention.
All right, well, I'm down.
Come on, we got a lot of work to do, but we got a plan.
So at this point, we just need to go execute it.
Love it. Let's do it.
Cool.
[somber music]
- Hey. - How are you?
I'm good.
I'm Zack.
We don't know what the future holds for this couple.
That's why we need to bring both families together.
If Garrett and Shantell come back, they relapse, they AMA,
anything in between, we still need the families unified.
So, guys, thank you for-- for real, for being here.
I know we're all here for the same reason, right , is we
want these two to get healthy. - Yep.
Right?
So we need to become a team on this.
I wanted to exclude Connie from today.
There's a lot of time between right now
and the time of intervention tomorrow for things
to go sideways.
But we want to bring Connie in tomorrow
prior to the actual intervention to ask for her to be involved
in the process because Connie's got the emotional pull
with Garrett.
If Garrett can hear his mom say, hey, I love you, it's OK,
go to treatment, that's gonna have so much pull on him.
Yes.
How do you guys feel about the relationship
between Garrett and Shantell?
I didn't think it was a healthy
relationship for 'em to be in.
I thought it was gonna be pretty self-destructive.
There's a lot of fighting, a lot of arguing over mainly
who's got the dope and who don't, you know?
They depend on each other because they have some kind
of trust between them.
But we can all agree that this is not a functional--
Yes.
Absolutely.
--healthy relationship.
So what have we done with good intentions that may
have allowed this to continue?
Give money.
Any dollar amounts or frequency, anything like that?
Anywhere from $4 to $20.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, just, like, what are you gonna do with $4?
You can do a lot with $4 when it's fentanyl.
Yeah.
- It's-- it's dirt, dirt cheap. - Yeah.
What about with Garrett?
I cut him off pretty much in high school.
My mom helps him out.
I don't know how much she really helps him out.
So she's definitely been a part of their abuse and stuff
they've been doing.
Peggy, you've been quiet, but you've got that look
of, like, real concern.
What's going on in your head?
I mean, it's gonna be hard because I'm sick right now,
and I don't want her to use that as an excuse not to go.
You have to stand strong saying it's your wish,
your dying wish, for her to get better.
Yeah.
Not the excuse, well, I've got to be there for my mom,
because she's not there for you right now.
That's the truth.
Yeah, she's not.
I'm gonna flip that around-- - Yes.
--on her.
You know, the best thing you could do for me
is go get better right now.
That way, if something does happen to me,
I know that you're gonna be OK.
On tomorrow, if we get a yes from one,
there's a high probability we can get a yes from the second.
On the flip side, though, if one says no,
the other is, for sure, saying no.
Yeah.
So if we're all committed together,
we've got more weight.
They get better.
- Yeah. - OK?
Well, we'll see you guys tomorrow.
- Yeah. - Thank you.
- Hey, likewise. - Absolutely.
Garrett and Shantell's relationship
has literally been founded in drug addiction the entire time.
So what we're really asking is that they
give up everything that they know of that relationship.
[tense music]
I mean, this is a big ask.
There's really no way to gauge how they're gonna react to that
and how it's gonna go.
[tense music]
Yeah.
What's up, man?
- How's it going, Zach? - It's going good.
How are you? - Good, good.
Garrett's brother was a little concerned
that their mother wouldn't be able to keep the secret.
She's here.
She's been enabling Garrett a lot lately,
so she doesn't know about the intervention yet.
[tense music]
Hey. Hey.
So good to see you.
See the baby?
Oh, my goodness.
Go ahead and take a seat right here.
Hi there, precious.
Oh, you are just a doll baby.
Look at you.
She's beautiful, Cassie. - Mm-hmm.
Thank you.
Hey, I'm Zach Livingston, by the way.
- Nice to meet you. - Yeah, you too.
You too.
Hey, one, thanks for coming.
Yeah.
I'm a substance abuse professional.
I'm an interventionist. - Mm-hmm.
And today, what we really want to do
is be able to offer him some help.
We want to hand him, like, the golden opportunity to, like,
get sober and, like, do treatment.
Really?
[exhales]
I know.
So we really want you to be involved in that process,
if you're willing.
We always talked about the day--
Yeah.
--that, you know, he would start his healing.
- Today's that day. - Oh.
For real.
We're gonna hand Garrett a miracle.
Today's the day, and you get to be a part of it.
Now, I have to ask you, though.
Like, in the past, how have you enabled him?
I have given him money.
OK.
And I know what he-- he-- he spends it on.
Mm-hmm.
I live in an RV, which I kind of bit
off more than I could chew and didn't
realize how hard it would be.
And so he does come and help me.
And I'm afraid his rebuttal might be,
I can't, I got to stay here.
I got to help my mom.
Almost like he's gonna need your permission.
- He can't leave me? - Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Like, he's gonna need to hear you say, like, hey, it's OK,
I love you, and I want you to do this.
Like, this is the best plan.
Like, go get healthy.
Going forward, the enabling stops.
OK.
That's not gonna be an issue for me.
- OK, cool. - Yeah, yeah.
Just to catch you up to speed, we
think the best way to go about this
is to do an intervention for Shantell
and an intervention for Garrett at the same time
with both families.
Yeah, that's-- that's-- that's awesome
because they just kind of feed off of each other, you know?
Mm-hmm.
And she needs it as much as he does.
- Yeah. - Exactly.
When these two get here-- - Uh-huh.
--we're gonna stay calm. We're gonna stay cool.
We're gonna stay collected. - Uh-huh.
Me and Mike are gonna guide you guys every step of the way.
OK.
- Let's get it done, OK? - OK.
Cool.
[tense music]
Perfect.
Thanks, Laura.
- How we feeling? - I'm nervous.
You guys ready?
Nervous? Positive?
- Nervous. - Excited.
Hopeful.
We're locked and loaded, man.
Von, you ready? - I'm ready.
I'm ready.
- OK, got it. - Yeah.
Nice and easy, guys. Relax.
We'll be good. - Yeah.
Go time.
[tense music]
Breathe and relax, all right?
OK.
- Hey, Garrett-- - Hey, guys.
- --Shantell. - Hi.
Hi.
You can come around here.
Come on.
I love you.
I'll just sit right here.
Well, guys, my name is Zach.
This is Mike.
Hi, guys.
And we're both substance abuse professionals,
and today, we want to have a conversation
about your drug addiction.
There's a lot of love in this room for you on both sides.
They've put some time and effort in to writing
their thoughts down on paper, and they were
hoping to share those with you.
Jody?
"Shantell, I love you past the moon and the stars.
You're kind, silly, and when you love,
you love with your whole heart.
You've always been very special to me,
and I hope you've always felt that.
And I hope you see the love and support you have
to help you through anything.
I only wish that best for you and hope
that you see this as an opportunity that can change
your life for the better.
I love you."
Thanks, Jody.
Jason?
"Shantell, I remember when we--
when we were a lot closer.
We used to take a lot of trips together.
I would give anything to make more memories like that.
Your addiction has taken my little sister away.
And that worries me.
I love you."
"Shantell, I'm writing you this letter from my heart.
We have lost our way.
I miss the way I could fix things when you were little.
Moms always have a way of fixing stuff and making things better.
I know you are worried about me being sick.
The best thing you can do for me, if this were my dying wish,
is for you to fight for your life as well
and accept this life-changing gift
and fight with me so we can both have lots
more time to enjoy life as it should be.
So please, please, would you fight with me?
I love you so much, and we can do this together.
Love, Mom."
I'm asking you to accept this gift
that they are offering you.
Please fight with me.
We would leave today.
[tense music]
It's OK. It's OK.
I don't want to talk to you.
Are you OK?
It's OK, Shantell.
No, this is [bleep] up.
[tense music]
It's OK, Shantell.
No, this is [bleep] up.
I don't want to talk to anyone right now.
Just please leave me by myself right now.
[tense music]
Right now, yeah.
He's ready.
I think he is.
She's scared.
Yeah.
How strong are you right now--
I'm good.
- --emotionally? - I'm OK.
Do you want to come with me?
Yeah.
The goal is not to tear you guys apart.
The goal is to allow you guys to have
an opportunity to be healthy.
Just get the [bleep] away from me right now!
I'm literally about to take off if you
guys don't quit following me.
What the [bleep]?
Right now, you can see how deep the codependency runs.
And she's so caught in her addiction
that she would rather use and be in pain than lose Garrett.
And I think what we're gonna have to do
is have Garrett lean into her and say,
hey, you want to have a healthy relationship, I'm going.
- Is Garrett with her now? - Yeah, yeah.
- Are they out back? - Yeah, yeah.
Cool. Cool, cool, cool.
We'll go for him, get him in--
Mm-hmm.
--and then establish the bottom lines.
If we got to play bottom lines, we'll play bottom lines.
But let's see what Garrett can do on his own first.
And she's the most receptive to him.
Yes.
I'm sure they're worried about each other.
- Yes. - Yeah.
Yeah, immensely.
That totally what it is.
Because if one leaves, and then it's like, oh, no,
what am I gonna do?
How is he gonna survive?
Yeah.
I know.
All right, so Garrett's with her now.
And it sounds like they're slowly making their way back.
OK.
Sorry.
Zach?
You just want to knock and say Garrett?
Yeah.
Hey, Garrett?
Yeah?
Are you ready to come back in, man?
Cool.
We know they're getting high in there,
but now we know that they're not slumped over
or [bleep] nodded out in there.
Are you guys ready to finish up?
OK, come on.
You guys want to come over to the balcony?
That would be out of the rain.
I have no idea.
[tense music]
OK.
You want to read out first?
"Garrett, I always think about the endless amount of time
we spent together as kids hiking,
fishing, hunting, how much fun we had.
You are missing out on bonding with my daughters
as their uncle.
I love you, and I can't wait for you to be a part of our lives
once again, Garrett."
Connie, I know you took some time to write something down,
too. - Yes.
"My dear son, Garrett, who I love more than life itself,
I became very frightened and spent a lot of time
worrying about what can I do for you, how can I help you,
especially when I'm an addict, too.
You have so much to offer in the way of things that would
make you happy in your life.
And I can't wait for the day to see my son smiling and his head
and his eyes clear, as he gets to enjoy
life with his girlfriend, who is going to be clean, too.
And I so much want that for you, Garrett.
And I'm gonna ask you, please, please accept this help."
Will you accept going to treatment?
Are you accepting the offer?
[tense music]
And I'm gonna ask you, please, please accept this help.
Are you-- are you accepting the offer?
- Yeah. - Yeah, yeah.
Shantell?
Yeah?
OK, great.
I love you so much.
Big step.
This place is amazing.
I'm feeling really good and really relieved.
Shantell going to treatment is gonna be tremendous.
I know she's in a safe place, and she's getting help.
It's not gonna be easy.
But she's got it.
Just stay strong.
OK.
Oh. - I love you.
I love you, too.
All right.
With happiness and joy in my heart,
I can't believe that this happened.
They're gonna take care of you, honey.
For those kids to say yes, I can go home this evening
with joy in my heart and hope.
Love you, too.
It's gonna be extremely important for Garrett
and Shantell to both remain sober,
and not just remain sober, but, like, grow in their sobriety
if they want a shot.
I mean, I'm really excited, personally,
to see what that looks like for them on the other side.
And they're off.
It's a blessing.
It is.
[tense music]
I do see myself having a future with Shantell.
I do want to spend the rest of my life with her.
I'd be happy if she were to have my kid in the future.
I do love her a lot.
We were also able to find treatment
for the two friends that were living
with Garrett and Shantell.
Getting Adrian and Lane into treatment
is really important because if Garrett or Shantell relapse,
the first place they could go back to is the house.
And we want to avoid that.
[pensive music]
- How are ya? - Good.
I'm Bill.
Ready to start your recovery? - Hi, Garrett.
Hi.
I'm at detox?
I don't really know how to say I'm feeling about it.
I'm kind of depressed right now, but I'm feeling all right,
I guess.
Feeling tired?
Yeah.
I'm depressed because I'm away from my girlfriend
when we spent every day together, every minute.
I mean, we did everything together.
[chuckles]
This is, like, the first step in a big step.
It's just something that's a little hard to adjust to,
you know?
[tense music]
This morning, everything was great,
but we had issues with two airlines,
and the delay resulted in her starting
to have withdrawal symptoms that we weren't planning on.
So we decided to abort the mission
and get her by ground to the detox center.
[pensive music]
So we finally made it to detox.
They're going to monitor Shantell, check her vitals,
and make sure she's OK, which is the most important thing.
And it was the best decision to get her off the plane.
Hi.
Sorry.
No, you're good.
It's really important to have a strategic, short,
and comfortable detox.
What's up?
[tense music]
So we finally made it to detox.
They're going to make sure she's OK.
And it was the best decision to get her off the plane.
What's up?
[tense music]
When we went to the airport, we missed our flight,
and then our next flight, my withdrawals were too bad.
So I had to get off the plane.
And then that's all I remember from there.
And then I woke up to some guy giving me an ultrasound,
letting me know that I'm six weeks and four days pregnant.
I just want this next 90 days to be over with so I
can see Garrett and move on.
Now that Garrett and Shantell are expecting a baby together--
Hi.
--their centers will help them prepare
for parenthood and sobriety.
All right, so we're gonna take you into the intake room.
We have 90 days to give her the tools
that she needs to get sober and to stay
sober and also be able to look at that relationship
with Garrett.
We really need to have that time to separate her from Garrett
to start giving her her autonomy,
to help her start finding her identity,
and also, who is she gonna be as a mother?
As long as she's motivated to get well,
we will give her the tools to be able to obtain
long-term sobriety, and she can do it.
[pensive music]
Lane's friends all went to treatment at the same time.
I think it's really good for them
to continue their friendship, as long as they're
all on the same path.
Lots of changes coming, I hear.
I was kind of shocked to hear that Garrett
and Shantell are having a baby.
I'm super excited for 'em.
I'm happy for 'em.
I'm excited to be an uncle.
You know, I think the biggest transformation that Adrian has
had in our process is just recognizing his worth,
his value, and having some confidence
in his newfound sobriety.
I heard that Shantell was actually pregnant.
And Garrett, in his letter, wrote to me
that he wants to make me the godfather--
the godfather of the child.
So it's just been blessing after blessing.
[pensive music]
The journey has been real so far.
I haven't felt these emotions I've
been feeling in a long time.
My first few days, I was really lost.
And then finally, Mike Diamond gets on the phone,
and he's like, hey, man, you don't got to-- like,
I got Shantell on the phone.
And she's like, I'm in the hospital right now.
They woke me up to an ultrasound.
I'm seven weeks pregnant.
So, like, right then and there, I made the decision,
like, OK, like, we got to do this.
I'm in it to win it now.
Let's don't practice, huh, it for a little bit?
Cool.
Garrett has really become a leader here at Legacy.
The guys look up to him and see him
as someone who's been through some really tough stuff
and is-- is making really amazing progress.
He's also in the process of, you know, becoming a father,
and that was very challenging, too, to think about.
His father was also struggling with substance abuse,
and so he wants to be able to make sure that he's not gonna
have that as an element in his relationship
with his son or daughter as he becomes a father.
Nice.
Hell, yeah. - Yeah.
Nice.
Being a dad is, like, huge motivation for me in my life
because I didn't have the best childhood growing up,
and, like, I want a good life for my kid.
I want to be a great father.
I want to be the father that, like, I never had, you know?
What are your plans after Legacy and going home?
I've got a kid on the way.
So after I find my sober community,
we're gonna start looking for jobs and stuff.
But we're gonna try to be in our own place
before the baby is born.
Nice.
I know we're, like, two completely different people.
So, like, it might be hard, but I think as long as we don't
stray from each other's paths that we will
do well in recovering together.
Appreciate you, brother.
Love you, dude.
Love you, too, man.
[pensive music]
I've been sober for 95 days, and I feel really good.
I have self-confidence again.
And it feels nice to feel my feelings
and not be numbing them.
Since arriving, Shantell has really
embraced our 12-step immersion program at Infinite Recovery.
She's been given a lot of educational information
about motherhood and what to expect
with the birthing process and the immediate motherhood.
Going to treatment knowing I was pregnant was scary,
but finding out I was gonna be a mother definitely
motivated me a lot more.
So these are pictures from my sonogram.
That's her.
I'm 20 and 1/2 weeks.
Shantell has been visiting with medical teams
since arriving at treatment, and all indications
are she has a very healthy baby, and we're
anticipating no complications during the birth process.
I'm really excited that it's a girl.
I wanted a girl.
[chuckles]
Me and Garrett are still together.
We would write letters to each other
so we'd get them like every other week,
and then we had like three Zoom calls with each other.
Learning to know who Garrett is sober,
I'm really excited for it, but I'm also kind
of nervous at the same time.
But I'm really excited for our future.
I do see myself spend the rest of my life with Garrett.
I know we're both gonna be sober and be the best
parents that we can be.
[upbeat music]
My plans are going to Portland to stay with my sister
and trying to find a job and just trying
to get ready to have a baby.
Hi.
Hi, love.
I'm really excited to see Shantell.
Yeah, I'm really nervous. My hands are sweaty.
Freaking-- my armpits are sweaty.
I'm like, dude, no.
[chuckles]
In person, the last time I saw Garrett was like a little
over three months ago.
I'm nervous because I've never actually been around him sober,
so we'll be getting to know each other all over again.
I'm very excited about my new life in Portland.
Really excited to prepare for our child on the way
and to jump into a new sober community around here.
Yeah, I'm really excited.
How's Shantell feeling right now?
Is she nervous?
Maybe?
[chuckles] Oh, man.
[upbeat music]
Babe!
Hey!
Oh.
I missed you so much.
I missed you.
I got you some flowers.
Thank you.
It feels amazing to see Shantell after 90 days.
Yeah, being away from her was pretty hard for me.
But knowing, like, we're in a better place now
and that we're gonna be great parents doing this together,
and we're here to support one another, it just feels awesome.
I'm so glad to finally get to see you, though.
It's been such a freaking long journey.
Oh, gosh.
I'm really excited to get to know him sober.
It's going really good so far.
Yeah, how's the baby doing?
Good.
Oh, my gosh, look at your little baby bump.
I feel like we just need to keep pushing forward in our recovery
and, like, doing this together and not straying
from each other's paths.
First step.
Yeah.
[chuckles]
[upbeat music]