Alexa Curtin – the youngest daughter of Real Housewives of Orange County alum, Lynne Curtin, is experiencing homelessness and addicted to drugs.
Lynn’s daughter addressed her dire circumstances while speaking with the L.A. To You Int. YouTube channel in an interview at a gas station in Lancaster, California.
Alexa’s story:
The 33-year-old told the YouTube creators that “A lot of bad things have happened since moving out here. It’s not really a safe place,” Alexa added. “I’m probably gonna move back to Orange County eventually. I hope I make it there,”
Alexa admitted to using fentanyl for about six or seven years. “I was doing heroin and then I kind of like, met some people. They introduced me to fentanyl, so I started doing fentanyl, and basically my life just kind of like went downhill.”
She started hanging out with the “wrong people” and “smoking speed.” However, she said her life is “more mellow” and claimed she isn’t “using as much anymore.”
Alexa claimed that she is “kind of cut off right now” from her parents, who currently live in San Diego. “Maybe I get sober again and then maybe they’re gonna supply me with money again,” she said. “But right now they don’t really want anything to do with me.”
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Alexa said she lost two fingers after being in a car accident due to her drug use. “It kinda sucks.”
“Really bad things” have happened to her while living on the streets. Alexa detailed a time when she was sexually assaulted. “I put myself in a really bad situation and the guy handcuffed me and I tried to crack the window with my head but I couldn’t. He f*cking covered my mouth, covered my nose, I couldn’t breathe, and he raped me for like two hours.”
Alexa said the man threatened to kill her but then “let [her] go eventually.”
“During that time, I really thought that was going to be it for me,” she said. “A lot of bad things have happened to me since moving here. It’s not really a safe place.”
“It’s not easy being white and living on the streets, you know?” she continued. “But even any other race, I hear about girls getting raped all the time. So you really have to protect yourself.”
The blame game:
Alexa said that her life was “unstable” growing up because her parents moved a lot. “It made it hard for me to get the grounds to build my life in a way, it held me back so I wasn’t even able to succeed in a lot of things. There’s so much more that I could have done.” Alexa said that “constantly switching school systems” made it really difficult for her. “I didn’t have any stable relationships.”
When asked if she had any words of wisdom to share with her younger self, she said to “stay in the net of your friends and family.”
“Don’t isolate yourself. Try to stay involved, because if you don’t get involved, you’re going to most likely get depressed and turn to either making bad choices or bad friends and end up at the wrong places at the wrong time,” she said. “Then you could develop a drug habit or alcohol habit, and it could really ruin your life.”
