Verheiratet … mit Kindern Alum David Faustino wurde nüchtern, nachdem Mamas Tod ihn in einer Pfütze meiner eigenen Tränen zurückgelassen hatte.

> “I hear that a lot, and she was. She was a great mom. It was tough when she left,” he said. “I’d always been a bit of a, you know, a partier. I’ve always liked to party and have a good time. But when she died, I went over the f—kng deep end … I was extremely close with her.”

> “Totally,” he confirmed. “It took me getting sober to even be able to — for three years, I sat around in a puddle of my own tears, thinking I could never heal and that life had handed me a hand that I would never heal from. And, you know, meanwhile, was drinking and drugging.”

> “Within about four months of being sober, I was able to acknowledge and be like, ‘Oh, my mom is dead. Right? She’s gone. That’s what people do. They get old enough, they die. And she was a great mom, and you got to have all these tremendous experiences that most people only dream of having with their mothers.’ And now I’m on the other side of it. I’m able to have this conversation with you, Christina, without doing what you just did. Without crying.”