DWTS Star Sharna Burgess Recalls ‘Foaming At The Mouth’ Amid Smoking Meth As A Teen

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[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] Sharna Burgess is opening up about a “scary” time of her life. The Dancing with the Stars mainstay may be at the height of her career now, but she’s definitely taken a bumpy path to get there… During a Monday episode of her Old-ish podcast with fiancé Brian Austin Green and co-host Randy Spelling, the 38-year-old revealed she has a dark history with hard drug abuse, which she says began when she was just 15 years old after a “knee injury” left her unable to dance.

For two years, she partied hard — until one day “the universe” helped her come to a “moment of clarity.” She recalled: Related: Angus Cloud’s Mom Describes Finding Him After Fatal Overdose Sharna, who was just 17 at the time, explained that by that point, she had been “smoking meth for a little while,” but claims she wasn’t necessarily “hooked” on it because “it was new.” She remembered: Wow.

SO young. However, as she sat in that backyard, she somehow snapped out of the moment: That’s so wild… Not ONLY the drug use, but also that she was in the company of much older people, who clearly had no regard for her impressionable young age.

However, in that moment, she somehow rose above the self-destructive lifestyle: She remembered thinking at the time: It sounds like it would be so hard to not only come to that realization on your own, but to also have the strength to remove yourself — but she did.