A grieving US citizen with an eight-year-old son Cameron to take care of had the painful task to tell his son that the boy’s mother had died the previous night of drug overdose. But he got someone to record a video of him breaking the news to his son, so that other addicts – especially those with children – realise what their addiction does and reform.
Brenden Bickerstaff-Clark is a recovering drug-addict himself and according to his FB confession, he is 94-days clean. His earnest post had 35 million hits on FB in a week and over one million on Youtube for the same period.
THIS FOR ANY AND EVERY ADDICT WITH CHILDREN. TODAY I HAD TO TELL MY 8 YEAR OLD SON THAT HIS MOMMY DIED FROM A DRUG OVERDOSE LAST NIGHT. THIS IS THE REALIZATION AND REALITY OF OUR DISEASE. DONT LET THIS DISEASE HAVE TO MAKE SOMEONE TELL YOUR CHILD THAT YOUR DEAD BECAUSE OF DRUGS. THIS WAS ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS IVE EVER HAD TO DO. MY SON HAS NO MOTHER BECAUSE OF HEROIN... KINDA HARD TO HEAR BUT U CAN HEAR WHAT WE’RE SAYING.PLEASE GET HELP SO OUR CHILDREN DONT HAVE TO SUFFER. THIS WASNT STAGED. THIS WAS REAL. I HAD SOMEONE RECORD THIS SO ADDICTS WITH CHILDREN CAN SEE THE SERIOUSNES OF OUR EPIDEMIC. I AM A RECOVERING ADDICT MYSELF WITH 94 DAYS CLEAN TODAY... PLEASE SHARE N MAYBE HELP SAVE A CHILDS PARENTS LIFE.
Brenden Bickerstaff-Clark pleads with the readers of his viral FB post that it wasn’t staged and he did this to make people realise how painful it is for the kids to lose a parent to an addiction.
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