Cindy Laine Is 12 Days Sober

Barth recounts the night Cindy first joined the room while extremely drunk and injured. He compares her chaotic five-hour performance to the way he himself used to behave when drinking, making it a darkly funny but empathetic 'I've been the

Cindy says she has been through treatment before, relapsed many times, and now knows she cannot drink again or she will die. Barth connects it to his own sobriety, saying he has collected almost five years and understands the shame of not r

When Cindy puts her mother Elaine on, Barth explains that he understands Elaine's fear and frustration because Cindy was in the kind of drunken place he used to be in all the time. He ties it to his own recovery, with Cindy noting he has fi