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NYC mayor-elect's daughter reveals drug abuse





Just days before her dad is set to take office, Chiara de Blasio, the 19-year-old daughter of New York City Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio, is opening up about her battle with substance abuse and depression.

In a video released by Bill de Blasio's transition team Tuesday, Chiara says she abused alcohol and marijuana to deal with clinical depression and anxiety before she was able to get treatment — and get sober.

"Every kid who grows up in New York grows up pretty fast," Chiara says in the five-minute video. "It made it easier the more I drank and did drugs to share some common ground with people I wouldn't have."

Chiara says she used "fake rationale" to justify her substance abuse: "I would be like, 'Okay, I won't drink.' I would just smoke weed. And then I would be like, 'I'm not gonna smoke weed, I'll just drink.' It was kind of like bartering for equally bad outcomes."

She said her therapist referred her to outpatient treatment, and that her therapy continued during her father's mayoral campaign.

"My mom was trying really hard to help me," Chiara said. "My dad was doing the same, but obviously he was very busy. But they were both very emotionally committed to try and figure out some way to get me better."

The 19-year-old urged others like her to seek help.

"Removing substances from my life has opened so many doors for me," she said. "Like, I was actually able to participate in my dad's campaign, and that was like the greatest thing ever."

"Her courage to speak out demonstrates a wisdom and maturity far beyond her 19 years, and we are grateful every day for her commitment to lifting up those who need to know that they are not alone," de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, said in a statement accompanying their daughter's video.

Bill de Blasio who won in a landslide victory over Republican Joe Lhota in November, becoming New York's first Democratic mayor in nearly 20 years. His term begins on Jan. 1.

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  • Sherman 5 minutes ago
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    What a fake! Her story is completely UN-believable, and as written, can only serve to further alienate the majority of us who do approve of using drugs in a responsible manner. She is just plain under-age, and shouldn't be using anything yet. None of what she describes as her 'abuse' was abuse at all, nor was it excessive, but rather, her problems appear to be personal (non-drug) related; probably a side-effect of having a professional liar..er..politician for a father. Learn to deal with your problems, and enjoy a buzz responsibly when you need it.
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  • Buck 5 minutes ago
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    D0PEY WHITE LIBERAL .... Too stupid to know about Miscegenation!

    The early Egyptians were Caucasian. From 3400 to 1800 B.C., Egypt excelled in architecture, mathematics, and science. As Egyptians moved south, up the Nile River, they encountered black Africans (Nubians), who were brought back as slaves. Miscegenation spread, Egyptians became more Neqroid, and Egyptian civilization began a decline from which it has never recovered. “The weak, disease-ridden population of modern Egypt offers dramatic evidence of the evil effects of a hybridization which has gone on for 5000 years.” (Garrett, 1960, p. 7).

    Today, Egypt is a Third World country with an average IQ of only 77 to 83. (Lynn, 2006a, p. 80).

    In Europe and the United States the evidence for the de-civilizing effect of miscegenation can be found in the education and crime levels in black schools and neighborhoods. And it is almost certain to become worse. According to a U.S. Census Bureau report, non-Hispanic whites accounted for only 66.4 percent of the U.S. population on July 1, 2006, though they were 76% in 1990 and 88% in 1965.

    The U.S. population is predicted to balloon from the current (October, 2006) 327 million people to nearly 420 million in 2050. Census Bureau projections show that the U.S. white population (IQ = 105) will drop from 69.4% of the population to 50.1%; blacks (IQ = 85) will increase from 12.7% to 14.6%; Hispanics (IQ = 87) will rise from 13% to 24.4%; and Asians ( IQ = 105) will jump from 3.8% to 8%. Thus, the percentage of blacks in the U.S. is already significantly higher than the 5 to 10% that Portugal had when its decline began.

    The United States is becoming more and more genetically homogenized and there is little hope that the trend can be reversed. The extent that a society is civilized is a function of its gene pool; once the gene pool has been lost, the products of that gene pool are also lost.
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  • Daniel 53 seconds ago
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    Self medicating with Marijuana, Alcohol and most likely other street drugs to cope with her depression. A familiar story of many of the mentally ill here in the USA. She says that she did this before she was able to get treatment and her Mom and Dad helped her. If they were trying to help her they could have gotten her treatment at the first sign of her mental illness. Sounds more like they were more interested in their own lives to pay any attention to her and her troubles.
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  • Someone Else. 2 minutes ago
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    Alcohol and pot are two substances abuses that are almost impossible to quit without help. but both are highly promoted by todays Hollywood and TV. Also I don't want to leave out guns. Maybe just maybe if Hollywood and TV would censor themselves the world would be a safer and better place.
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  • Blue Boy 40 seconds ago
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    I know a relative who married a black man now he's in prison.
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  • Sledge Hammer 2 minutes ago
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    I'd do drugs, too, to escape from the fact my dad is a liberal loser.
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  • Ty 3 minutes ago
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    Soooo am I supposed to say that's great good job for doing drugs? Since every time you say something that is morally right you gets bashed for it.
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  • sgtjack 1 minute ago
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    If I were Dictator of America, I would order all drug dealers to be hung by the neck until dead.
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  • Nina 5 minutes ago
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    As mayor he has the power to crack down on who is selling that to school age students. (She probably started when she was in high school.) His daughter ought to be able to help shed a light on that.
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  • James 1 minute ago
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    I guess this makes de Booblio even more attractive to his socialist base. I really don't care; NYers have made their bed. Now they have to lay in it.
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