Taylor Nicole Dean is a YouTube personality identified in wallet of the internet
YouTube character and exotic animal collector Taylor Nicole Dean is opening up about her struggles with addiction and her courting with her ex-boyfriend in a new Vice documentary.
Article continues beneath advertisement
"I Got Addicted to Heroin in Front of 1.5 Million YouTube Subscribers" is the latest episode of Vice's "MY LIFE ONLINE" sequence, which profiles folks from all corners of the internet.
Taylor desires to set the document straight about what is been occurring along with her channel, the place she accrued 1.eighty five million fans and became a fixture of PetTube, a style of YouTube that revolves around showing off pets and pet care, ahead of going silent for over six months.
So, what took place to the YouTuber, are her pets OK, and who was Taylor Dean's boyfriend? Keep studying.
Article continues under commercial
Taylor Nicole Dean opens up about her battles with addiction.
As Taylor explains in the Vice documentary, in addition to in her hour-and-fifteen-minute-long video marking the go back to her channel, "I'm a Heroin Addict (The Truth About Everything)," she grew up moderately sheltered. In reality, she's a self-proclaimed shut-in. "I was always homebound," she says to Vice.
Article continues below advertisement
It appears that Taylor became homeschooled from the 5th grade onward. "They didn't know what was wrong with me," she explains. "At first I had a lot of chronic illness that was undiagnosed and they figured out I had Ehlers-Danlos syndrome." Ehlers-Danlos is a connective tissue disorder, "which basically means I can dislocate my body very easily," the YouTuber explains.
One time she even says that she went to the doctor considering that she had a chilly, and was identified with a shattered clavicle. "It was hard to socialize you," interjects Taylor's dad.
To cope with her illness, she took to the internet. "I'd never heard of PetTube when I started doing YouTube videos," she says. "I just started talking about my pets."
Article continues under advertisement
Before she knew it, Taylor was in a position to give up her day job at PetCo, had surpassed the million subscriber mark, and was once arrange with a manager and sponsorship offers. That's when she went to her first birthday party, one for YouTube, and got here to the conclusion that she was once an addict. "Alcohol and drinking I wasn't really exposed to that much growing up and I never went to dances in school or parties," she admits. "My very first party I ever attended was because of YouTube."
Article continues below advertisement
Who is Taylor Nicole Dean's ex-boyfriend?
While she experimented with cocaine on the celebration, issues in reality spiraled when she found out that her boyfriend on the time, Jonny Craig, the previous lead singer of the band Slaves, was once the usage of heroin. "The problem with me is that I always wanted to be accepted," she unearths. "I was pretty much ready to jump on to anyone who looked at me, even."
"Basically, I meet this guy online," she explains of the early days of their codependent courting. "I was a huge fan of his music. He is ten years older than me and someone who deals with addiction and he had a lot more access to all of these [drugs]."
He started bringing opiates around the house, and Taylor started to experiment with her boyfriend. "I just kept telling myself that it's not a problem," she remembers.
Article continues under advertisement
Soon, her YouTube channel started to "really, really, really take a dive." "I'm finally able to say that it was my relationship," Taylor admits, explaining that Jonny escalated from prescription opiates to heroin, and before she knew it, Taylor had additionally grow to be addicted, thanks to "this dude that kept shooting me up."
Article continues beneath commercial
Taylor says none of her pets had been neglected right through her length of drug abuse.
"Animals became the only thing that made me feel like I was important and served a purpose which is NOT right and NOT okay and is one of the reasons I rehomed 12 of them when I got to rehab," she explains on her Twitter page, hammering home the purpose that none of her animals had been harmed throughout her addiction or recovery. "I'm not perfect and definitely have made mistakes, but I never got into the animal hobby just for YouTube views, nor do I neglect animals."
"I haven't had a single animal pass, not even from old age, since I have lived in my apartments," she emphasizes. "I'll continue to always be honest when an animal dies, but I truly know they have never died from neglect and if I did, I'd rehome them because the last thing I'd ever be able to live with is watching animals suffer."
We're happy Taylor's at the up and up, and want her the most efficient in her recovery.
ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7pbXSramam6Ses7p6wqikaKhfqa66uM6rZKehk6S5pnnDnpinZZKkxqe%2ByJ6lnQ%3D%3D