TV star Tracey Gold has partly blamed her husband for her shameful
drink-driving arrest–because he convinced her to drive home after a boozy
barbecue.
The former Growing Pains star was placed on three years probation last month
after pleading guilty to a second felony drink-driving charge in
January.
The 35-year-old actress, who was almost two times over the legal alcohol
limit, was arrested after a rollover crash that injured her husband and two of
their three children.
And Gold insists she would never have driven back from a family barbecue if
her husband Roby Marshall (corr) hadn’t convinced her she’d be fine to drive.
In her first full interview since the crash–on Oprah Winfrey‘s daytime show–Gold says, “In our relationship my husband always drives… It’s sort of never a thought in my mind. So we drove there.
“I didn’t hang out with my husband a lot at the party. I was with the moms…
it was a very nice family thing. I’d had some wine over the course of the
evening. I’d been sipping it with the moms and it was just a nice night.
“At the end of the night it became apparent that my husband could not drive
home. He had been drinking. He had been doing more than just having a sip. It’s
not like him.
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“He said to me, ‘I can’t drive… You’ll have to drive,’ and my first
instinct is, ‘I’m not gonna drive because the truth is… I am not a person who
drinks and drives. But I didn’t listen to my inner voice.”
Gold admits she’s living with the shame of the accident and subsequent arrest
every day.
She adds, “It was the lowest point of my life. I have always been a really
optimistic person who tries to see things clearly… and I’m always proud of
who I am. All of a sudden I felt so much shame and I was embarrassed to be me.
“I live my life every day as a responsible, careful, good person, I think…
and I made a horrible, horrible choice that evening.”
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