Does it have anything to do with her daughter?

So last night Tara McDonald did an interview and confessed to her addition to oxicontin and that she is on the methadone program to beat her addictions.

 

My very first thought and comment is. Good for you Tara, good for you for recognizing your problem, admitting your problem and seeking help for your problem. No one who has never struggled through addiction will ever truly understand exactly how hard that was for you to do.

 

But then the questions start falling.

 

Tara why did you not disclose this when the first rumour hit the world that you were indeed involved in drugs? You stood on your front step and said that you had not done any drugs since high school… I mean who doesn’t smoke weed in high school. (Which you are right) but to stand there and not tell the whole truth, as much as it is not our business, just ruins your credibility as the case goes on. More people will be skeptical about what you have said thus far as being the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.  It takes a lifetime to build trust and only a second to break it. These people you were not telling the truth to, are the people who want to help you find your daughter. AND ALL INFORMATION IS RELEVANT.

 

Sadly, when you are at the public’s mercy, your whole life is too.

 

That is a sad unfortunate fact, but now knowing that you know the wonderful world of drug dealers, I wonder if your response would be different to their character? Sure there are some nice and friendly drug dealers out there… but it is their business. And seeing their business is illegal, how can one expect that they would not be involved in other things also?? Including abducting a child. People who suffer from addiction are sick. It is an illness, some recover, some never do. Once an addict always an addict. That is what they say.

 

That does not necessarily make you any less of a person, or any less of a mother. It just adds concerns, of course, it is a shady world. People put lots of trust and when it is broken it adds concerns, maybe it is not our business to be concerned, but Tara, we are searching for your child.

 

And there is a real concern about having an addict as a mother, and child of an addict will tell you that. The dangerous of od’ing, the dangers of the associates you know, even if not your friends, these things are to worry about.

 

The focus should not be on your drug problem and only on your daughter, but please understand, that when you stand on your step and say one thing then the next week you change it, people are going to talk, and it still keeps your story out there, but then people run off with their theories, which never ever bode well for you.

 

Tara fighting with Rodney and playing the well here is his dirty laundry game only makes you look childish. You are both missing your daughter… remember, keep the focus there, like Rodney is doing. Like you are doing.

 

It wont help bring her home if they see you fall apart, and it wont be nice for tori to see it either.

 

Bring her home, whoever has her, so this family can begin to heal.