Sharna Burgess is opening up about her meth addiction when she was just a teenager.
The 38-year-old newly engaged dancer got candid about her experience with drug abuse on the show’s most recent episode. something old podcast and shared how dancing helped her get through it.
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During the discussion, Sharna told her fiancé Brian Austin Green and Randy Spelling that she discovered she was ready to take the first step away from drugs, which began after a knee injury, after a sign from the universe.
“This was at the end of probably being awake for three days. “We were sitting in the backyard of someone’s house and they were passing around a crack pipe with meth and we were all taking hits,” she shared. “[At that point, I] I had been smoking meth for a while. Not every day, but from time to time because it was new.”
Sharna added that she didn’t think she was particularly “hooked” on meth, but that “it was definitely a party drug at the time that was going around all the time, and I was partying pretty much, three or four days a week.”
“I was sitting there watching this pipe go by and the universe, God, whatever you call it, gave me this moment and I saw everyone sitting in front of me with complete clarity of what my future was going to be like,” Sharna explained to Brian and Randy. “Here I was 17, wide awake for three days, watching 20-somethings and maybe even 30-somethings go through this crack pipe hoping to get a little more out of it.”
“I realized that I came from being an Australian champion ballroom dancer, I represented my country at the World Championships. I was an athlete, the best in the country at that time, and due to a knee injury I fell,” Sharna said. “But I realized to what extent [fallen] and how much I needed to get back to that person, that this was not what I was meant for.”
She continued: “You had that moment on the floor, on your knees. ‘I’m here for a reason. I’m here for more.’ They gave me that blessing of a moment to see where she was. And that’s where everything changed for me and I understood it. “I need to dance in my life again.”
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