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Former TV Anchor Laurie Dhue Shares Her Struggle With Alcoholism (Former Fox Anchor)
AOL Health ^ | February 9, 2011 | Catherine Donaldson-Evans

Posted on 02/09/2011 1:43:14 PM PST by truthkeeper

Former television personality Laurie Dhue says she no longer knew who she was and was tired of suffering in silence from alcoholism when she decided to quit drinking and get help four years ago.

Dhue, who turns 42 tomorrow and was an anchor for the Fox News Channel, MSNBC and CNN, battled her addiction to alcohol for "at least" a decade and a half, she told the "Today" show Wednesday.

"I hid my alcoholism for many, many years," she said. "I was probably a high-functioning alcoholic, as so many people are. But there were cracks, certainly, and there were definitely times when people asked me what was wrong, and I just -- I didn't even know, myself."

Dhue remembers the day she realized she had a terrible problem and decided to get help...

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: alcoholism; foxnews; lauriedhue
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To: truthkeeper; a fool in paradise; JoeProBono

I’d dhue ‘er!


41 posted on 02/09/2011 2:43:38 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Revolting cat!

What do you think led her to drinking?


42 posted on 02/09/2011 2:45:41 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. -Albert Brooks)
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To: Islander7

"..her legs are so long she could cross a room without stepping in it"

43 posted on 02/09/2011 2:48:04 PM PST by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: a fool in paradise
What do you think led her to drinking?

Television personality? Well, certainly not thinking!

44 posted on 02/09/2011 2:50:09 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: onyx

Good for her ... and God bless her. She looks simply
wonderful and very content.


45 posted on 02/09/2011 2:51:58 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: Lazlo in PA

Tea or coffee, I hope.


46 posted on 02/09/2011 2:53:26 PM PST by Shimmer1 (My sympathy co-efficient for illegals is about zero)
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To: a fool in paradise
Addictive personality?

Reporting about SocialistDemocratMarxists like Obama?

Working with Shep..and BOR?

Working with Jerry Rivers?

47 posted on 02/09/2011 2:55:04 PM PST by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: truthkeeper

Dry for 4 years - that’s great. I hope that she can keep with it.

If I’m not mistaken, she left Fox and started at CNN or MSNBC the week of 9/11/01. It was odd to see her on a different network.


48 posted on 02/09/2011 2:58:01 PM PST by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: truthkeeper
You go, girl -

One Day at a Time!

49 posted on 02/09/2011 2:58:45 PM PST by atc23
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To: truthkeeper

Good for Laurie. Now she can help many others who have the same addiction.

She is a brave and beautiful person.


50 posted on 02/09/2011 2:58:58 PM PST by Palladin (Obama, go back to Hawaii! Better yet, go back to Kenya!!)
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To: truthkeeper

Is there a Mr. Dhue?...Seriously though, good luck Laurie. When the going gets tough, the tough get going...Call me!


51 posted on 02/09/2011 3:01:04 PM PST by equaviator ("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: a fool in paradise

She was thirsty. (Sober 12 years in June )


52 posted on 02/09/2011 3:05:47 PM PST by Crawdad
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To: truthkeeper

Wow. I would have never guessed. I wish her the best of luck in her continuing recovery.


53 posted on 02/09/2011 3:07:09 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: a fool in paradise
What do you think led her to drinking?

Childless and unmarried at 42. Probably used the booze to suppress her natural longing to be a mother in order to pursue a meaningless career.

Go to any Lincoln Park (Chicago) or other upscale neighborhood and you can see row after row of the Laurie Dhues of the world on the barstools any night of the week.

54 posted on 02/09/2011 3:07:19 PM PST by triumphant values (Never criticize that to your right.)
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To: Islander7

Emma Jade at LocalNews 8 in Idaho Falls looks
very much like Laurie Dhue. She’s a San Diego gal
who moved to Idaho.


55 posted on 02/09/2011 3:09:12 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: tirednvirginia

Wow, that’s sad. I’m glad to hear she has got it beat for now.


56 posted on 02/09/2011 3:13:03 PM PST by Ham Hock
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To: BubbaJunebug

LOL


57 posted on 02/09/2011 3:18:45 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously..... You won't live through it anyway.)
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To: truthkeeper

Ha ha! Now she “can pick and choose who she goes out with”... No more drunken one night stands!


58 posted on 02/09/2011 3:21:40 PM PST by Tea Party Reveler
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To: triumphant values

That wasn’t it at all.

We met once in a bar and I turned down her advances.

Probably crushed the poor thing.


59 posted on 02/09/2011 3:21:54 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously..... You won't live through it anyway.)
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To: OldDeckHand

According to her interview, she said it was a private dinner given by Cal Thomas. Perhaps it was also a faith based event, because she obviously spoke. She said there were about 80 people there.

The next morning, at the prayer breakfast, her blackberry started ringing and it was people telling her, her story was written up by a reporter and out there.

It’s pretty slimy to write it up, for sure, but a smart woman should know, no place is truly private anymore. How many sex tapes are out there? And I just read a story about a man being arrested for animal cruelty because some kids taped him killing a coon his dog attacked in his garage.

There is no privacy nowadays. If it’s juicy enough, anything is fair game.


60 posted on 02/09/2011 3:27:13 PM PST by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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