Hunter Biden
Bryony Gordon's Mad World
The Telegraph
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Being an addict is a difficult thing for anybody to navigate - but Hunter Biden’s struggles with addiction were put under worldwide scrutiny when his father, Joe Biden, was running for president. Now he’s taking control of his own narrative with the publication of a brutally honest memoir. In it, he opens up about the tragedy that has befallen the Biden family - from the car crash that killed Hunter’s mother and sister, to the loss of his brother, Beau to cancer in 2015. In this powerful interview, he tells Bryony Gordon why the pain saw him turn to alcohol and drugs, but how - despite his best efforts - his family simply wouldn’t let him “disappear”. Plus, he lays out why he’s adamant that addiction should be treated as a mental health issue rather than a matter of criminal justice.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:03.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | The suffering that I was going through, I know this as a father. |
| 0:13.0 | It's even harder on those that are watching you, essentially kill yourself. |
| 0:18.0 | It's even harder on those that continue to come back to you and offer you love time and time again |
| 0:24.0 | and you reject it and seemingly consciously choose a drink or a drug over them. |
| 0:31.0 | My guest on this week's mad world has had to carry the huge weight of grief. |
| 0:36.0 | As a child, he lost his mother and sister and as an adult, his beloved older brother, |
| 0:41.0 | while also dealing with addiction. |
| 0:44.0 | It would be a difficult journey for many of us, but when you add in the fact that his family is very much in the spotlight, |
| 0:50.0 | his father is the president of the United States no less, it becomes even more remarkable |
| 0:56.0 | that he's willing to talk so openly about those battles. |
| 1:00.0 | His memoir Beautiful Things is an unflinching account of that time in his life |
| 1:05.0 | and as someone who's had to navigate addiction myself, I just knew that speaking to him would help so many of you. |
| 1:12.0 | Please welcome to Mad World Hunter Biden. |
| 1:18.0 | Hunter Biden, thank you so much for coming on Mad World. |
| 1:23.0 | It's fantastic to have you from where are you, L.A.? |
| 1:25.0 | Yes, L.A., L.A. |
| 1:27.0 | Okay. Sunny L.A. |
| 1:28.0 | Sunny L.A. I'm in sunny Cornwall, which is, it's not... |
| 1:32.0 | So listen, the first question I ask every guest on Mad World from Prince Harry through to nurses to everyone |
| 1:40.0 | is how are you really right now because we ask that question so often and people just go, |
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