Hunter Biden Says His Family Never Gave Up On Him
Hunter Biden's new memoir is a story of his years of alcohol and drug addiction. He tells NPR that the one constant was the love of his family: "Their light was never not seeking me out."
At its heart, Hunter Biden's new memoir, Beautiful Things, is a story of addiction.
Biden, the 51-year-old son of the president, writes that he first bought crack cocaine at age 18. He first fell in love with alcohol in high school and started drinking heavily after work in his 20s. "I always could drink five times more than anyone else," he writes.
He has been in and out of rehab numerous times over the last two decades and has had long periods of sobriety between relapses.
It's also a story about a family's love and loss. Biden was 2 years old when his mother and sister died in a car crash. Hunter and his brother,
