The Daily Beast has an excellent interview with Pasadena Recovery Center alum, Jennie Ketcham. Here’s the first question and answer:
Was there a specific moment during shooting Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew that it clicked for you that it was real and you embraced being a sex addict? How idd you know that you had to quit porn as a result?
I don’t know that I’ll ever “embrace” being a sex addict. I think that’s probably one of the most difficult things about addiction; I must reaffirm that I am an addict all the time. No matter how much I know it’s true, there will come a day where I think, well… maybe not. The day I knew I had to quit porn was when we started talking about checking out of the Pasadena Recovery Center. I’d been ensconced in the wonderfully safe rehab bubble — no phone, no Internet, no rent, no closet filled with vibrators or talk of real life. Once we started discussing what we would need to do “on the outside” to stay sober, it was a little bit of a white light moment. I remember thinking, I don’t know what I’m going to do, but I know I can’t do porn anymore.
Read the entire Daily Beast interview.
Jennie Ketcham will be speaking at the Pasadena Recovery Center on Wednesday, August 8, 2012.
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