Vinnie was hyper and out of control from the time he was an infant. Not a race car driver who cared about spending all of his spare time with his cars.

Does he know how to express his love? No, he feels his part as a husband and father was to go to work and make sure we had the things needed, food and shelter and “toys”. He wants to keep us under his thumb so he would always have the upper hand.

But his father is not the evil person depicted. Most people his dad comes in contact with are verbally abused. Not only was Vinnie physically and mentally abused by his father, but so was I. There is so much more to our family background. I could not stand to see him on the streets of Hartford, where he knows people and could probably find a place to stay, but in CA he knew no one. But that doesn’t matter, I broke my word and flew him home. So yes, I told him to go to the nearest airport and I would get him a plane ticket home. I begged with him to return to the program, but I’m not sure if it was his pride or his freedom, but he said he could not return. He was in the middle of Palm Springs, CA with not a dollar in his pocket. The director of the program called to me let me know Vinnie was being discharged. It is very hard for Vinnie to open up and share all of his feelings and NO, I did not fly him home FIRST CLASS like the show depicted. Maybe out of fear, maybe for his thirst to have drugs. I do want to point out to you (and I am not making excuses for myself or for Vinnie) but he was asked to leave the program for non participation in the group counseling. They can probably do a whole series just on our family.

A lot of what you said is true, but the show also failed to mention a lot of things, mostly because of time I’m sure and probably to get their point across. “My daughter Michelle found your blog and forwarded it to me.

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