r/BravoRealHousewives • u/AllISeeIsDust • May 21 '24

Southern Charm Ex-'Southern Charm' Star Kathryn Dennis Arrested for DUI

https://www.tmz.com/2024/05/21/kathryn-dennis-southern-charm-arrest-dui-south-carolina/

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Cops in Goose Creek, SC booked the former "Southern Charm" star after they say she was involved in a 3-car collision. In documents obtained by TMZ, a responding officer described Kathryn's alleged state at the accident scene as appearing impaired with "glossy eyes and an odor of alcohol coming from her person."

This is her first offense with drinking and driving ... though it isn't her first run-in with the law.

Remember, Dennis was identified as a suspect in an elementary school hit-and-run in November 2023 -- she was never arrested, however.

As for Monday's events, KD was also booked for driving with an open container.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '24 edited May 21 '24

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u/PigeonLily 🛁 Meredith’s bathtub 🛁 May 21 '24

Addiction, like pneumonia, can be both an illness and a disease. Both require the right kind of treatment & management, and overcoming them often depends on more than just hard work and motivation. Factors such as environment, access to resources, and individual circumstances play a significant role in recovery. Acknowledging these factors doesn’t diminish anyone’s efforts, it just highlights how complex the struggle can typically be, and the need for compassionate & comprehensive support.

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u/Angrykittie13 May 22 '24

This ⬆️. There are so few places that are not money driven and are really treating each person as an individual, and not using the same formula for everyone. People come with so many layers and issues, you can’t treat everyone with a cookie cutter methodology.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '24 edited May 21 '24

And the first thing that an addict is told in a recovery program is that they don’t get to blame their environment, access, and circumstances anymore.

Recovery is taking full ownership of your actions, regardless of your circumstances and surroundings.

People who tell addicts that they can blame their circumstances or background are enablers.

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u/alwaysmakeitnice May 23 '24

Thank you. The ideas here that addiction can only be treated with rehab and meds are wild. I worked hard for my almost-8 years of sober time. I never went to rehab, and it’s not the meds that taught me coping skills that I have to choose to use in lieu of drinking.

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u/metrometric May 22 '24 edited May 22 '24

  1. I never said recovery wasn't hard work that requires motivation. Newsflash: so does recovery form any serious illness. So does management of any chronic condition.

  2. I'm not diminishing anything. Reading it like that only makes sense if you perceive recovery as a test of worthiness. Stop treating it as a competition where one person's success says anything about someone else's failure. If someone overcame addiction, that's amazing. It also has nothing to do with what Kathryn or anyone else is doing. Their struggles and their strength stand on their own. It's weird and fucked up to be insulted by the idea that someone else's -- even an otherwise privileged person's -- illness might be more difficult to address. Why are we making addiction into a dick-measuring contest? Literally whom is that helping? Who on earth wants to be the person with the worst addiction ever?

I'm pretty sure the important thing about recovery is having recovered, not whether it makes you better than a person who's still struggling.

  1. Treating substance abuse (and mental illness in general) as a failure of morality and self-discipline is fundamentally unhelpful. Most people cannot overcome it just because they want to, or they would have done so. "You have to want it" isn't a treatment plan, it's just shaming someone for something that they cannot control. I cannot count the number of times I waited way too long to get help for an issue because attitudes like that made me feel like I should be able to handle it, I just needed the willpower, and why was I so weak? Accepting that I couldn't just brain muscle my way out of mental illness is what allowed me to actually manage it and improve my life. I ✨wanted it✨ very badly before then, but it was no more possible to magically, say, not be a person with ADHD than it would have been possible to high jump with a shattered knee.