Cocaine-laced cigarettes, crack, and vodka binges: Hunter Biden details his drug and alcohol abuse
by Caitlin Yilek
| July 02, 2019 01:41 PM
Joe Biden’s son Hunter has detailed the drug and alcohol addiction problems that played a role in the end of his marriage, his discharge from the Navy Reserve, and his absence from the 2020 campaign trail.
Divorced in 2017 after a 23-year marriage, Hunter Biden, 49, is the father of Naomi, 25, Finnegan, 19, and Maisy, 18. He recently married Melissa Cohen, 32, a South African divorcee, in secret just 10 days after he'd met her, marking the occasion with a "shalom" tattoo in Hebrew on the inside of his left bicep, to match one she has in the same spot.
Shortly afterwards, it emerged that he faced a paternity suit from a 28-year-old Arkansas woman. He denies ever having met her.
Speaking about his struggles in interviews with the New Yorker, the son of the former vice president said he began drinking socially and occasionally used cocaine at Georgetown University in the early 1990s.
He was once sold crack when trying to buy cocaine but didn’t have a pipe to smoke it from.
“I didn’t have a stem,†Biden said. “I didn’t have a pipe.†He used a cigarette, but said “it didn’t have much of an effect.â€
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