Season 16, Episode 2
Katie S.
Age: 36
Location:
Addiction: Heroin, Meth
Official Synopsis: Katie was a beautiful and successful mortgage broker and drug & alcohol counselor whose pride and joy were her two kids. But a devastating breakup resulting in losing custody, and sent Katie into a downward spiral of heroin and meth addiction. Her face is now ravaged from use, and her veins are so damaged that she resorts to injecting anally, aka booty bumping. Katie supports her habit by webcam stripping and prostitution, and her family fears that if she doesn’t get help, the next step will be an OD.
Date Aired: Nov 2016
Interventionist: Candy
Does anyone knows if they ever did a follow up on Katie from Season 16 episode 2?
This episode breaks my heart because all her son wants is his mom. I lost custody of my daughter 16 years ago and haven’t seen her since she was 3 years old. I’d give anything to have my daughter in my life but it’s just not to be yet. I’m clean on methadone and have been for a couple of years. My mom passed on 11/30/23 and we didn’t sheesh for years because of my addiction. Thank God I was able to have a few years with her, years that she knew I was clean. Looking at Katie’s Facebook, there were a few posts about her father passing and how she wished that she was able to hey it together while he was still alive. Since I don’t have my daughter, I stay clean so that I can have time with my father. I’m the same age as Katie. There are still days that I want to smoke crack or shoot for but the fear of not being able to stop and getting stuck out there keeps me clean. I can’t think of anything worse than that feeling of guilt that I’d have if I was stuck out there again and my dad passed. I think he finally has some peace of mind seeing me clean for a couple of years and it would devastate him if I threw it all away. And I know me, I get stuck for YEARS out there when I relapse. Not today. I hope Katie has found some peace of mind. I hope she’s forgiven herself because I could feel that self hatred she had cause I had it too. Hopefully my daughter wants some sort of relationship with my someday. She’ll be 20 in June.
I don’t know if I’d go so far as to say it looks like she’s doing well, based on her weird Facebook page. Last post was from July 1st. And I’m really dying for good news here.
It doesn’t look like she’s doing super well. She’s active online but still working for adult websites. I did shortly browse her personal site and one of the pics shows her blowing smoke, along her posting a blog about her “getting speed for her roommate” or something along those lines. She claims that she doesn’t like it, but frankly, I don’t buy that. She still uses that site to get dates and make money, so who knows. Just doesn’t look super promising, unfortunately. Looks like she lives in Chicago now.
Thinking of you Katie and hoping you are well. For some reason this episode sticks with me.
Same here just joining in on this love fest for Katie.s
Katie please know there must be something so special about you to attract all this love!
I couldn’t believe this girl didn’t think she was rock bottom yet you could hardly understand her when she spoke and doing heroin up her butt because her veins are all ruined and collapsed it is 2023 now she is in my prayers and it is never to late to pray for someone
Did Katie pass away my heart broke for her such a hardlife a hard addiction
She’s alive and appears to be doing well from her facebook page.
Does anyone know how heroin addict Katie from Arizona is doing ? It was so obvious she wanted sobriety but was scared of the process. I really felt for her.
anyone got updates about his son Brian?
Is Katie still alive?
I honestly expected to come here and see that she was dead,I’m also used to have alot of addiction issues and they all say you can’t compare addicts as far as severity..well I’m here to tell you some get wayyyyy more sicker than others. And she has to be one of the worst I’ve seen and trust me that’s bad. I wish everyone in her family the best and I hope I’m wrong but for some unfortunately it’s too little too late. Some addicts get to where they honestly,and I mean this literally.. HONESTLY don’t care about living in their own rock bottom. Some get so sick they embrace it and start to think it’s normal. Again..hope I’m wrong
Is there an update on Katie? I often think of her, and worry. I had a short history with her in Milwaukee through NA when I would go with my sister Lori; who we sadly lost. I hope that she has found some peace in her life and is doing well.
Many comments on this very sad episode–and not one about how masterfully Candy tried EVERYTHING in her arsenal to save Katie. Maybe since the intervention didn’t work out, it was viewed as a “failure.” Not to me. I think this episode is one of Candy’s finest hours ever. She really went all-out with this severely troubled addict. If Candy couldn’t pull it off, nobody could have. Candy Finnigan is totally awesome.
Her Facebook is current & it looks like she is doing a lot better. Which I know isn’t saying much, but it was nice being pleasantly surprised.
Update.
https://www.publicpolicerecord.com/indiana/evansville-jail/SMITH_KATIE/475079021
That’s 2 years ago. She looks a lot better on her current facebook.