Fans have really fallen for the bow tie-sporting stylist-to-the-stars Brad Goreski, whose personality is as colorful as his fashion choices. After a season of watching Goreski on Bravo's It's a Brad, Brad World, it certainly seems like the fashionable star can find the humor in any situation, but this wasn't always the case.
In the 34-year-old's memoir Born to Be Brad: My Life and Style, So Far -- which hits shelves on March 6 -- Goreski opens up about the cocaine addiction that nearly killed him, as well as the way he was bullied in high school and the real reason he parted ways with former mentor Rachel Zoe.
According to the stylist, he was offered his first line of cocaine at age 19, while he was studying musical theater at George Brown College in Toronto. "I thought, 'What the hell?'" he writes in his memoir.
The descent into addiction happened quickly. He admits that he had already experimented with alcohol, marijuana and Ecstasy in high school, but his cocaine habit reached a whole separate level from those. Thankfully, Goreski was able to realize that he was in a downward spiral and that he had no choice but to get clean.
"I needed to get help. It was early on a December morning. I was in (my) bathroom, staring in the mirror, and I didn't recognize myself. Finally I felt the weight of the situation," Goreski writes. "I told myself, 'You can carry on like this, and the drugs will be your life.' I wasn't doing anything with my life except wasting it."
One of the main problems in his life was his then-boyfriend Nick, who advised Goreski that he didn't need to stop drinking, he just needed to cut the cocaine. But Goreski knew he had to get clean entirely, and that Nick wouldn't be the man to help him do that, so he turned to his parents for assistance.
"I was crying in heaving sobs [on the phone], saying that I needed to get sober, that Nick and I were breaking up," Goreski writes. "And I was fine for another few months, going to AA meetings. Until I saw Nick out at a club making out with someone else. I fell off the wagon [then] forced myself back to AA."
He adds, "It was May 3, 2001. I was determined to stay sober. This was day one: the first day of the rest of my life."
In addition to tales of his troubled past, Goreski spends some of his book giving charming anecdotes, which bring us back to the Brad we know and love. Not only does he open up about childhood obsession with Marilyn Monroe, but he also shares awkward teenage pics only a mother would love -- and who would want to miss those?
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Source: http://www.ivillage.com/brad-goreski-my-cocaine-addiction-almost-killed-me/1-a-433896
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