Klonopin is in the Valium family, but Valium is fuzzy and Klonopin is insidious because it\u2019s so subtle that you can hardly tell you took it. I got through 1986 and 1987. Thank God I\u2019d already written the words for my record The Other Side of the Mirror. But what started happening was that if I didn\u2019t take it, my hands started to shake. I felt like I had a neurological disease or Parkinson\u2019s. I started not being able to get to Lindsey Buckingham\u2019s house on time, and I would get there and everybody was drinking, so I\u2019d have a glass of wine. Don\u2019t mix tranquilizers and wine. Then I\u2019d sing horrific parts on his songs, and he would take the parts off. I was hardly on Tango of the Night, which I happen to love.
\nThe next six years were terrible. Looking back on it, I think this therapist was basically a groupie. He loved hearing stories of rock and roll and he started upping my dose. He watched me go from a beautiful, 125-pound, newly sober woman who had the world at her feet to a 170-pound woman who had the lights go out in her eyes.
\nFinally, in 1993, I\u2019d had enough. I said, \u201cTake me to a hospital.\u201d I went in for 47 days, and it made Betty Ford look like a cakewalk. My hair turned gray and my skin molted. I could hardly walk. You can detox off heroin in 12 days. Coke is just a mental detox. But tranquilizers\u2014they are dangerous. I was terrified to leave, and I came away knowing that that would never happen to me again.
\nI learned so much in that hospital. I wrote the whole time I was there, stuff that I consider to be some of my best writing ever. I learned that I could have fun and laugh and cry with amazing people and not be on drugs. I learned that I could live my life and still be beautiful and fun and still go to parties and not even have to have a glass of wine. I never went to therapy again after that\u2014why would I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Klonopin is in the Valium family, but Valium is fuzzy and Klonopin is insidious because it\u2019s so subtle that you can hardly tell you took it. I got through 1986 and 1987. Thank God I\u2019d already written the words for my record The Other Side of the Mirror. But what started happening was that if … <\/p>\n