Carly fiorina daughter died of addiction
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Carly Fiorina in her own words on her stepdaughter&#;s death
During Wednesday night’s GOP debate, Carly Fiorina argued that we need to invest more to treat drug addiction, an issue that has sad personal resonance for the candidate. Her stepdaughter died from drugs, a story she relates here from her memoir, “Rising to the Challenge.”
The two police officers stood awkwardly in our living room. They shifted uncomfortably, as if worried that the mud on their boots might soil the light carpet.
They asked us to sit down. Frank collapsed in a chair. I sat on the carpet next to him, my arms wrapped around his knees. The police officers said our daughter was dead, three thousand miles away.
We hadn’t heard from her in a couple of weeks. Frank had been in touch with the volunteer paramedics he had worked with in New Jersey, and they asked the police to check on her. She was 34 years old.
At that moment, we lost both the woman she was and the woman she could have been. All our hope
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The Story Behind Carly Fiorina's Emotional Debate Moment: 'I Buried a Child to Drug Addiction'
It was an emotional intersection of policy, politics and the deeply personal: Carly Fiorina, addressing the nation’s drug epidemic at this week’s Republican Presidential debate in the context of losing her stepdaughter to an overdose.
“I very much hope that I am the only person on this stage who can say this,” Fiorina said in Wednesday night’s debate. “But I know there are millions of Americans out there who will say the same thing: My husband, Frank, and I buried a child to drug addiction.”
“We need to tell young people the truth. Drug addiction is an epidemic, and it is taking too many of our young people,” she added.
Fiorina and Frank lost Lori Ann Fiorina, who was just 35, in after a struggle with substance abuse and bulimia that spanned many years and three stints in rehab, the International Business Times reported.
The strikingly solemn moment in Wedne
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Carly Fiorina’s Most Personal Debate Moment: “I Buried a Child to Drug Addiction”
“I very much hope that I am the only person on this scen who can say this,” Carly Fiorina said at Wednesday night’s debate, “but I know there are millions of Americans out there who will säga the same thing: My husband, Frank, and inom buried a child to drug addiction.”
Fiorina did not go into further detail Wednesday in this preface to her comments on drug policy, during which she criticized equating marijuana with alcohol. There are, however, revealing passages in her newest book, Rising to the Challenge, according to this Time piece. Fiorina’s stepdaughter died at age 35 as a result of “struggles with alcohol, prescription pills, and bulimia.” From Time:
Fiorina often mentions that her stepdaughter Lori died in , but she typically only notes that she was “lost to the demons of addiction.” It’s striking, then, that Rising to the Challenge opens with a detailed section about Lori’s death.
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