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While on the Old-ish podcast, Sharna Burgess recalled a specific drug experience as a 17-year-old. “We were sitting at the backyard of someone’s house, and a crack pipe was being passed around with meth in it, and we were all taking hits of it,” she recalled.<\/p>\n
Up until then, meth wasn’t exactly something used Sharna’s normally, so she didn’t consider herself “hooked” on the drug.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Still, she was “partying pretty much three to four days a week” at the time, the Australian said.<\/p>\n
Sharna would soon have a moment of “clarity.”<\/p>\n
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While doing drugs in that backyard, Sharna Burgess realized this was what her “future looked like.” She recalled thinking, “This was not what I was meant for.”<\/p>\n
“Here I was, 17 years old, high awake for three days, watching 20-somethings and maybe even young 30-somethings passing around this crack pipe just waiting to get a little bit more out of it,” Sharna, now 38, explained. “I realized that I had come from being an Australian champion ballroom dancer, I represented my country at the World Championships, I was an athlete, the best in the country at the time. And because of a knee injury, I fell off.”<\/p>\n
The “Dancing With The Stars” alum said “realized how far [she’d fallen] and how much [she] needed to get back to that person.”<\/p>\n
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While continuing to speak about her drug days, Sharna Burgess recalled the time she’d “taken too many things” at the rave and “started frothing and foaming at the mouth.”<\/p>\n
“You sober up very quickly when you’re in fear of your life like that,” she said.<\/p>\n
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Sharna Burgess’s surroundings played a role in her drug usage, she suspects, adding that her home life left a lot to be desired.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I was very, very uncomfortable in my reality, so I would escape to this place of euphoria,” she said. “And eventually, the things I would take to get to that place of euphoria weren’t strong enough or enough, and I do more and have more and more often. And that was the slippery slope for me.”<\/p>\n
Eventually dance gave her “the strength” to get clean.<\/p>\n
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On Sept. 22, Sharna Burgess and her beau, Brian Austin Green, announced that they were engaged. “The latest chapter,” they said on Instagram.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The duo later revealed that they’d actually been privately engaged for two months, but only their inner circle knew. They both told People magazine that they have yet to discuss any wedding plans.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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