Season 2, Episode 1
Corinne
Age: 19
Location: Missouri
Addicted to: Heroin
What’s Memorable: The scenes of her shooting up with her boyfriend for many, many hours at a time really stuck with me. Also, her lovely, heartbroken grandmother.
Update: Corinne Stumborg died of an overdose on March 19, 2019. Here is her sister’s Facebook post. Here is the funeral notice.
Official synopsis: Corinne is a pretty 18 year-old blonde girl who was an honor roll student, star athlete and played the clarinet and saxophone. She started using drugs at 14 after being sexually abused by a neighborhood boy who babysat her. Still striving to move forward while battling her addictions, she completed her GED and began college, finishing two semesters before dropping out. Now, Corinne has become addicted to a deadly combination of heroin and crystal meth. Corinne likes the “speedball effect” — the dangerous result of overlapping meth and heroin usage. Corinne is also a diabetic who requires insulin, but she often skips her doses because she is so high. After repeated trips to the emergency room, her family is expecting, any minute, to hear that they’ve lost her for good.
Original Air Date: October 2005
Interventionist: Candy
So haunting when she says “I’m scared to get sober and then relapse…it’s a killer”. Rest easy Corrine
I just watched her episode and raced here for an update, and my heart sank. She was such a genuinely likeable human, and I totally expected to read that she was doing well. Her poor family. If you’re reading, I’m so genuinely sorry for your loss.
I loved her episode. She was so relatable. Sadly, she just couldn’t shake the demon.
I am so sorry to see about Corrines passing away she was such a pretty young girl with her life ahead my condolences to her family
Ahh God damnit I’m so dad to see this update, Corrine seemed like such a sweet girl. I know her battle all too well, sucks to hear she continued to struggle with this throughout her life. I hope you feel at peace now Corrine 🙏
It’s a shame what happened to Corinne. Her episode is from 2005 and she passed in 2019. She was just a baby when she started using. Then, and I’m hypothesizing here, she was probably in and out of drug use until she passed. It’s a tragedy. Nice young girl, sweet and innocent. I’ve seen this several times on “Intervention”. People starting to use before they’ve even learned how to get to First Base in the game of life. Then they cant get out of usage, no matter how hard they try. Next step is the graveyard. Awful.
I’ve never commented on here before but I just finished rewatching this episode and it’s the saddest one of the whole series because of all those years that were, just like you said, in n out of addiction…her story is so similar to my own, I was 17 when I first picked up heroin, I was just like Corinne, parents that loved me, upper middle class, smart, talented. I’m sad to say that I’m 44 now and still struggling with this thing, methadone, jail, lost custody of my daughter, medical problems and it did a number on my physical appearance, and I did see Corinne’s pics on FB from over the last few years before she passed and you could see the years on her too and I don’t mean that in a bad way. but you could tell she had seen some things. Yes, she was a heroin/meth Addict on the episode yet there was still something VERY childlike n innocent t about her. Like, If I passed her in the street, she looks like a cheerleader, not a full-blown junkie BUT SHE WAS. Just how much stuff I think she hadn’t done YET for dope like tricking or stealing. We know that because of her statement about how smoking Crack isnt Wirth it because all it dua is make you want more and it’ll turn her into a prostitute Asian she was saying, “I’lnever become a prostitute”. Like she hadn’t had to go there yet and neither had I at 19…but it got there. Pretty much all of the Intervention episodes, the addicts are engaged in some kind of illegal behavior but not in this episode. Shes still innocent and pure,, like if she couldgethekp now, the possibil we old be endless for her future. It almost looked like she could just up n walk away from the needle one day if she felt like it. For my 1st few years as a junkie, I could fool people too. It just reminds Me so much of myself. Just so so sad to know she spent many many years fighting this monster but in the end, it took her. Oh and Corinne’s father lso passed away too after Corinne did and you could tell how much he loved her. I don’t know if Corinne’s grandma predeceased Corinne but if she did, I bet she was there to welcome her to heaven. RIP Corinne, your story is mine and it meant something to me to watch it again. There was su h a dichotomy between your young, wide-eyed, innocent, highly intelligent, loving, caring self in your episode between most of the other Intervention stories.
Thank you for sharing and being so raw. Your testimony is so touching. I’ll be praying for you. You are worth living a happy, healthy and long life! Please take care and be well! I am rooting for you!!
I hope you are having a successful life if you fall just try to get up and step forward best wishes to you
This episode was so hard to watch, especially with the update at the end indicating that Corinne had a daughter and to see on here that Corinne passed in 2019. My heart just breaks for all of her family. I’m very surprised at how many episodes I’ve seen on over-the-air TV of people who have since passed away. I’ve read on other episodes’ comments that episodes with people who have died are usually no longer aired.
Typically they get removed upon the request of the family (you can purchase some of said episodes on Xfinity though), but there are some people who have passed and their episodes are still widely available, usually in the earlier seasons (Brian, Lauren, Corinne, Ben).
I was so hopeful for Corrine. My heart is broken. If there is a heaven, she is there. Addiction sucks. Rest peacefully Corrine.
Someone posted on her Facebook page for the two year anniversary of her death, and it says that she died of a heroin overdose. So sad. She seemed like a very sweet girl.