![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The pattern continued, leading to 12- to 16-hour benders, withdrawal symptoms and a 20-pound weight loss: “I didn’t eat anything much beyond what was available at the liquor store: Doritos, pork rinds, ramen noodles. Biden went back to rehab again, then relapsed in 2016 after Beau died. He went to rehab and relapsed after seven years - not long after his father joined the Obama ticket, effectively ending his son’s lucrative lobbying career. In his 20s, he started drinking heavily after work (“I could always drink five times more than anyone else”). There was no putting Humpty Dumpty back together again.” While his father was vice president, Biden spent a month in a Washington apartment bingeing on vodka.īiden had his first glass of champagne when he was 8. “It made the obvious clear: What was gone was gone permanently. “Our relationship began as a mutually desperate grasping for the love we had both lost, and its dissolution only deepened that tragedy,” he writes. The next thing Biden remembers is waking up in a hospital bed next to Beau: “He’s mouthing three words to me, over and over: ‘I love you. Her head simply swings.” At a four-way intersection, their car was broadsided by a tractor-trailer carrying corncobs. “I don’t remember anything else about her profile: the look in her eye, the expression of her mouth. “Suddenly, I see my mother’s head turn to the right,” he writes. Hunter Biden describes how Naomi was “sound asleep in the front passenger seat tucked into a bassinet” - an eyebrow-raising detail by today’s standards. Neilia Hunter Biden - referred to as “my mommy” throughout “Beautiful Things” - took Hunter, who was 3 his brother, Beau, almost 4 and their 13-month-old sister, Naomi (known as “Caspy,” short for Casper the Friendly Ghost), to pick out a Christmas tree near their home in Wilmington, Del. President Biden, then a newly elected senator, was in Washington. He remembers the accident that killed his mother and sister. The book is equal parts family saga, grief narrative and addict’s howl. In the last five years alone, my two-decades-long marriage has dissolved, guns have been put in my face, and at one point I dropped clean off the grid, living in $59-a-night Super 8 motels off I-95 while scaring my family even more than myself.” I’ve been so desperate for a drink that I couldn’t make the one-block walk between a liquor store and my apartment without uncapping the bottle to take a swig. “I’ve bought crack cocaine on the streets of Washington, D.C., and cooked up my own inside a hotel bungalow in Los Angeles. “I’m a 51-year-old father who helped raise three beautiful daughters,” writes President Biden’s younger son, who now has a year-old son of his own, in the prologue. Hunter Biden doesn’t beat around the bush in his new memoir, “Beautiful Things,” which comes out on April 6. To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. ![]()
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