I live in a family where alcoholism is genetic, and it's very difficult to avoid. There's a lot of pressure to drink in family events, and mixed with genetic predisposition, it can be really terrible. Our relatives have oftentimes gone into really bad places because of drinking, including my mother. Fortunately, she managed to pick herself up and get rid of it, but most people in my family just don't care about it. I have a sixteen-year-old cousin whose dad drinks with him when they go fishing or to baseball games. And it's hard whenever you are in a fmaily wher you have to have copious amounts of alcohol at baby showers.
In that sense, it can be a disease. But sometimes I have no sympathy. for example, I have an aunt who was very alcoholic and ended up stealing all of her parents' money so that they had to sell their house of 50 years. In that case, I have no sympathy for her and neither does most of my family. Needless to say, if she ever comes around again, we probably won't support her.
But it really depends on the situation, I think.
"I can't figure out what kind of life this is, comedy or tragedy, I just know it's showbiz. And what if I don't agree with the lines I have to read? They don't pay me enough, the way I see it."
