Season 1 Episode 11
Tommy
Age: late 30’s?
Location: Dallas, Texas
Addicted to: Cocaine
What’s Memorable: Perhaps the strangest episode of Intervention. We find out very very little about Tommy’s history. We don’t see pictures of his life before he became a homeless coke addict. At no point in the episode does Tommy do drugs. We never see him trying to get it or after he’s gotten high. All we know is what he says things used to be like, and all we see is the apparent consequences of his addiction – a storage unit with only a few things left, sleeping on the roofs of his friends’ condos, taking advantage of free hotel breakfasts, riding around on his bike.
Official synopsis: Tommy, who quit his executive job and sold his Lexus, retirement plan, and million-dollar condo to sustain his cocaine habit.
Original Air Date: June 2005
Interventionist: Candy
Honestly, one of the most bizarre ones I’ve seen. Wondered what happened to him.
Here’s Tommy’s facebook. He commented on the Intervention site, and him and his girlfriend said that he is still sober 7 years later.
https://www.facebook.com/tommy.talbot1?fref=ufi
@ Michelle
That Facebook profile is NOT the Tommy from this episode in 2005. I hope this Tommy stayed clean and is happy.
It’s definitely not Tommy, but that does look a lot like Tom (from season 4?)
You can tell from listening to him speak just one sentence that there’s no way in hell the “Tommy” from this episode grew up in Boston (I’m from Boston).
Seems he is still doing good! Way to go Tommy!
I just watched his episode. I wonder what ever happened to him and I wonder how he got to the point he was at the time of filming. Like I wonder what events triggered his downward spiral.
Tommy ……I remember you from Marco island ,get in touch with me
This episode seemed fake to me. Or rather Tommy’s part of this episode.
I think it was too. Like he may have had a drug problem I don’t know. I think they maybe were all actors. Also remember when he was visiting friends at nightclubs and drinking? How could he afford that if he was living on hotel roofs?
True, although how can any homeless person afford their drugs?
Because his friends were paying for everything and my bet is that he was stealing more than what was shown.
Need an update on Tommy, or any and all information about this episode. I’ve been mulling over it for a decade. Help a girl out
He was from Dallas. I was in treatment with him up in Taos, NM. He stayed in NM.
Over a decade!?! What duh….
His location was Dallas, TX. I recognized the skyline in a few shots, and recognized some buildings in Uptown and the Katy Trail.
lmao i died 😂