Adrienne-Banfield Norris celebrated a significant achievement on Wednesday, Dec. 22. She took to Instagram to announce that she reached 31 years of sobriety after battling heroin addiction.
In a video, the Red Table Talk host shared with her followers her clean living and how she took sobriety “day by day.”
“So I’m outside, and I just wanted to take a few minutes to be peaceful and still,” she stated. “Today is my anniversary, my clean date. 31 years.”
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The co-host then quoted the Narcotics Anonymous passage of “one day at a time” before referencing the program’s introductory text, “When at the end of the road we find that we can no longer function as a human being, either with or without drugs, we all face the same dilemma. Either go on as best we can to the bitter ends — jails, institutions, or death — or find a new way to live.”
Banfield-Norris then explained to fans and followers what the passage had meant to her while struggling with her addiction.
“That passage couldn’t be more appropriate on a day like today because, for me, that passage is about surrender,” she elaborated on the text. “I spent so many years in that insanity of active addiction, running in and out, and just that revolving door — you know, trying to get my life back together.”
“That surrender was a struggle, but it was the surrender that was the beginning of the change in my life,” she continued.
The 68-year-old previously opened up about her drug addiction on an episode of Red Table Talk where she described the difficulties of her condition and her decision to get clean with co-hosts and daughter and granddaughter, Jada Pinkett Smith and Willow Smith, Too Fab reported.
While revealing that she had been misusing drugs for “over 20 years”, Jada disclosed that she had realized her mother’s relationship with drugs when she was a teenager.
“I think I didn’t find out my mother was addicted to heroin until I was in my teens,” Smith said at the time.
She added that she could “tell when my mother was high” when she couldn’t remember to pick her up from school or was “falling asleep in the middle of something.”
Banfield-Norris decided to get clean after pursuing a relationship with a man who wanted her sober. However, she ultimately chose to enjoy a drug-free lifestyle for herself. The Baltimore native also revealed that she turned to spirituality as it played a vital role in leading a clean lifestyle.
