COMING CLEAN
Social media star and TV personality Nicola “Nix” Adams has fought a tough battle to earn the respect and trust of her young children after regaining full custody of them earlier this year.
Seven years ago, Nicola’s world was torn apart after her 16-monthold son Alaska unexpectedly died in his sleep while the family were living in Australia. In a bid to numb her pain and grief, Nicola became addicted to methamphetamine and abandoned her husband and two young children to lead a destructive life, which included time in jail and stints as a sex worker to fund her habit.
When Nicola, 34, finally got clean, her children had returned to New Zealand with their father after they’d had enough of her broken promises and her downward spiral into P addiction. The only way she could reconnect with her whānau and show them she had changed was by sharing her story of recovery on social media. The unique tactic worked. She not
