Season 12, Episode 3
Katie
Age: 25
Location: Porter Ranch, California
Addiction: Alcohol, Bulimia
What’s memorable: How her parents can’t figure out where she gets the money to buy alcohol, the married boyfriend that’s 30 years older and was her customer at the strip club, how skinny and unhealthy she is, the awful way her parents treat her and each other, the way her mom hides bottles of wine in the closet and doesn’t think anyone knows.
Update Dec 2014: It appears that Katie is sober but still struggles with her eating disorder. Her dad has set up a GoFundMe to help get her into treatment. The photos I’ve seen are shocking – she looks to have lost quite a bit of weight and she was skinny to begin with. I hope she is able to get the help she truly needs. Facebook page and GoFundMe page
Official Synopsis: Twenty-five year-old Katie uses her eating disorder and binge drinking to cope with her mother’s secret alcoholism and parents war with each other while her worried siblings pray someone can step in and save them all.
Original Air Date: August 2012
Interventionist: Seth
Man… I watch a lot of Intervention, but this episode hit hard. Watching Katie was like looking into a mirror. It’s eerie how much our lives have mirrored each others’. Thankfully, I’m not and haven’t been as “bad” as she was, but I can see how close I was/am to being in the same place. The scene of her having a meltdown over the man she was “dating” not wanting to come over… man oh man, I know exactly how she felt. I know how she felt this whole episode. It’s all so messed up
Katie’s dad was the worst father I’ve EVER seen on Intervention, which is saying a lot. I will never understand how he could look at his suffering, sweet, sensitive and docile daughter and speak to her so cruelly. If that’s how he spoke to her on camera, who knows what he was doing and saying off camera. He truly disgusted me. I’m so glad to see Katie is doing well. She is a very intelligent, strong and resilient woman.
I just checked out her FB page and as of march 2025, she’s been sober for 11 years. She looks radiant! Keep it up, Katie! <3
I’m so glad to hear this! Her episode is my favorite. It feels weird to call an Intervention episode that- what I mean is, out of all those profiled, I saw myself the most in her story. I just rewatched it the other day and came here to see if there’s an update.
Go Katie!