Anyone watching mum, heroine and me?

[Pawslikepaddington]

It's depressing me so much I may turn it off, but do you really think moving house can lead to your child becoming a heroine addict? It's giving me second thoughts about my life plans now!

God, I could've put that ten grand to good use - certainly wouldn't have spent a single penny of it on dirty brown water to inject into my leg.

Finding it hard to feel sympathy for these two. And yes, I don't know what I'd be like if my DS became addicted to drugs. But I can't imagine giving him cash to meet his dealer outside Kwikfit and then trundling off to buy chocolate milk while he went to shoot up.

I want her mum to be my mum, she is so nice.

here she goes, enabling her again.

look at it now.

See she managed to keep the flat looking nice

She's been stealing STEAK too-prob from M & S! He he!

Oh good God give me strength, the mother is almost worse than the daughter!

At least my house looks tidy compared to theirs

guilt drives the mother

guilt guilt guilt

sorry - the mum is a bloody idiot. this is exactly what my dp's mother did when he had drug problems - helped him get into a fucking mess.

It must be so hard for her but giving her money? ffs.

Bet mummy paid the fine...

it'll go on till you die, lady.

and she won't give a toss.

it'll go on till you die, lady.

and she won't give a toss.

mother tooo accepting
tooo resigned

whats the odds on her going back onto drugs when she returns????

bloody stupid cow

This is tricky.

I do feel that the mum is enabling, but the girl is only 21.

She reminds me very much of my aunt, one of whose sons was an addict for a time. She bought him a caravan, in which he lived at the bottom of her garden for quite some time.

He was around Hannah's age at that time. He is completely off heroin now, married with 2 lovely boys and another dc on the way. I really hope it can work out like that for them.

glad i didn't watch this, the tv review made it sound so attention seeking of her in the first place

I watched this and felt for the situation they found themselves in.
Poor mum and poor girl!

well, hopefully she'll get off it, wessex.

and not be like gordon ramsay's brother, who is 39 and still on junk.

isn't he in some foreign prison expat?

It was hideous. I admire the mum for being so calm and trying to maintain a relationship with the daughter, but God I couldn't do it. Soul destroying - and although I wasn't paying full attention, I think it sounds like the drugs destroyed the parents' marriage. So depressing - I don't believe leopards change their spots, but she clearly had to keep hoping.

I think the mum was a pragmatist tbh. Horrible situation to be in, and I am not sure we can know how we would react unless in the situation.

Had added poignancy for me as I recognised many of the locations they filmed in, and know how pervasive the drugs scene in Bton is.

She is enabling her

But it must be so hard

Dp and I just discussed it. He couldn't believe how she gave her a tenner to go and score while she waited... I asked him what he'd do if one of our dds begged him for the money - the alternative being them having to go and give some scumbag dealer a blowjob or something

It really doesn't bear thinking about, does it? When you really put yourself in her shoes

Who is paying for the rehab in South Africa?

I wished they had given more background info about her childhood. It was so hard to understand it all.