Natanya Ross on Heroin! Betrayal! Trauma! The 90's! Brad Renfro’s Death! & Recovery

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This week on Dopey! We have it all! Emails! Blood Shot Voice mails! Comments! Mysogny and Sisterhood!

Then we bring dopey with Natanya Ross — the iconic 90s child star from The Secret Life of Alex Mack. I sat down with her in LA and she absolutely opened up her soul. We covered everything from her crazy early fame (she was doing Gerber commercials at six months old), discovering she was adopted at 19, her adoptive mother’s horrific betrayal and financial abuse, to descending into heavy opioid and heroin addiction.

Natanya got real about living in a car and at the notorious American Hotel on Skid Row with other child stars, her relationship with Brad Renfro (who tragically overdosed and died right next to her), the later death of her fiancé Blake, and how she fought her way into long-term recovery. She’s now deep in the treatment world — Executive Director of Business Development at Valiant Behavioral Health, President of the Women’s Association of Addiction Treatment, and founder of San Fernando Valley Feed the Homeless.

This one is serious Dopey business — raw child star trauma, Hollywood darkness, and triumphant recovery all in one.

ALL THAT AND WAY MORE on this weeks new episode of that good old Dopey Show!