
“I’m struck by the lectures and therapists there. “I look back on a lot of the writing that I did,” she said. My friend took one look at me and knew.” Her first rehab was that year at Cirque Lodge in Utah. That’s when I knew I was in no condition to conduct an interview. Vargas described a day in 2012 when she showed up at ABC too drunk to work. It wasn’t until my 40s that I fell off a cliff.” “My story is different than others I’ve heard ‘in the rooms,’” she told me. Now sober for two years, Vargas is committed to sobriety but understands we only have a daily reprieve from alcohol. Resigned and humiliated, she returned to that second rehab.

In 2014, she went to a second rehab but left prematurely. It’s no surprise that didn’t work and the disease progressed. She went to her first rehab in 2012, but denial said she only needed two weeks of treatment.
