She Relapsed After A Wealthy Guy Paid Her $25,000 To Drink With Him
For many, beer or wine are just beverages that allow you to loosen up and have a little fun at social gatherings. However, it’s not so simple for others. In some cases, the use of alcohol can lead to alcohol addiction.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 140,000 people die each year in the United States from excessive alcohol use, making alcoholism a very serious matter.
A TikTok creator named Sarah Pribis (@sarahpribis) is sharing the story about how she relapsed after a guy paid her $25,000 to drink with him. She hopes that her experience will be able to help people who may be struggling with alcoholism.
A few years ago, when Sarah was a host on a trivia game app, she became involved with a charity. The charity asked her if they could auction off a lunch date with her as one of their prizes to the highest bidder, and she agreed.
The person who won the lunch date turned out to be a much older man. He worked in a different industry than her and was clearly very wealthy. He also seemed interested in financing the arts.
He ended up hiring Sarah to research art shows that people suggested to him to make potential investments in, so she would often meet him for lunch.
“Looking back, I think the entire thing was a lie, but I wanted to believe I wasn’t just having lunch with a strange man for money and that I was actually working for him,” said Sarah.
She went on to point out a few red flags that cropped up during her stint with him. For one, they would always meet in the private room of a restaurant.
He also never failed to buy an expensive bottle of wine and pour a glass for her, even though she had told him she was an alcoholic.
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Still, he would do it “just in case.” Once, he told her that he didn’t believe in alcoholism. His philosophy was that if everyone just bought a bottle of wine they couldn’t afford, then they wouldn’t be able to drink that much of it.
“Again, there were warning signs, and I should’ve listened to my gut, but all I could focus on was the fact that he was very interested in some of my projects and potentially financing them,” said Sarah.
One day, they were having lunch, and he announced that he was ready to finance one of her projects. He had a check all written out for $25,000.
However, there was a catch. In order for him to make the check out to her name, she needed to share a glass of wine with him.
Sarah figured that it wouldn’t be a big deal, especially with that amount of money on the line. She decided to take a few sips and go back to being sober afterward.
Then, she took the check and went on her way. For months, she refrained from drinking, but the one little slip-up weighed on her conscience.
Soon enough, she wasn’t able to sleep at night, so she started taking sleeping pills. Before she knew it, she had upgraded to stronger substances. Once she realized she was relapsing, she decided to go all in. It lasted for a year, and it was one of the darkest times of her life.
“I’m super grateful that I was able to come clean and get clean again because a lot of people don’t make it back,” said Sarah.
“And just a reminder that not all money is good money,” she concluded the video.
@sarahpribis hope this helps someone ?
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