Hunter Biden released a memoir: in them he spoke about drug addiction and relations with his brother's widow

The son of US President Joe Biden, Hunter, in his memoir Beautiful Things, spoke about drug addiction, his romantic relationship with his daughter-in-law and the new love that stopped his cycle of despair. The publication told about this in more detail. New York Times.

Hunter Biden's memoir will be released on April 6.

“I am a 51-year-old father who has helped raise three beautiful daughters,” President Biden’s youngest son, who now has a one-year-old son, writes in the prologue. “I bought crack cocaine on the streets of Washington, D.C., and made my own in a hotel room in Los Angeles. I was so desperate for a drink that I couldn't walk one block between the liquor store and my apartment without opening a bottle to take a sip. In the last five years alone, my twenty-year marriage has ended, I've been held at gunpoint, and at some point thrown out of my life living in $8-a-night Super 59 motels off I-95. It scared my family even more than it scared me.”

The book is equally a family saga, a tale of grief, and a drug addict's confession. Here's what readers will learn from Hunter Biden's memoir.

The accident that killed his mother and sister

On December 18, 1972, now President Biden, then a newly elected Senator, was in Washington. Neilia Hunter Biden took Hunter, who was 3 years old, his almost 4-year-old brother Bo, and their 13-month-old sister Naomi to choose a Christmas tree for their home in Wilmington, Delaware.

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Hunter Biden describes how Naomi was "sleeping soundly in the front passenger seat" - a detail that raises eyebrows by today's standards.

“Suddenly I see my mother’s head turn to the right,” he writes. “I don’t remember anything else: the expression of her eyes, the expression of her lips.” Her head was just bobbing." At a four-way intersection, their car was struck by a corn tractor-trailer.

The next thing Biden remembers is waking up in a hospital bed next to Beau: “He repeats three words to me, over and over: ‘I love you. I love you. I love you". This is our story."

His romantic relationship with Bo's widow stemmed from "clinging to the love we both lost."

What began as a "torture bond" with Halle Biden turned into a full-blown cohabitation arrangement when Hunter Biden's marriage ended. He tried to become a stable person for his niece, nephew and daughter-in-law, but admits that none of it worked.

“Our relationship began as a mutual desperation for the love we had both lost, and its demise only compounded that tragedy,” he writes. “It made it obvious that what was lost was lost forever.”

While his father was vice president, Biden spent a month in an apartment in Washington, drinking vodka.

Biden drank his first glass of champagne when he was 8 years old. At 20, he began drinking heavily after work (“I could always drink five times more than anyone else”). He went to rehab and started drinking again seven years later, shortly after his father joined President Barack Obama's administration roster, effectively ending his son's lucrative career as a lobbyist. Biden returned to rehab and then again in 2016 after Beau's death.

This pattern continued, leading him to 12-16 hour binges, withdrawal symptoms, and 20 pounds (9 kg) weight loss: “I didn't eat anything other than what was available at the liquor store: Doritos, pork skins, ramen noodles. In the end, my stomach broke down. "

Biden used a kitchen knife to remove the plastic bump that regulates the flow of vodka from the jug, allowing him to pour faster.

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His father, who was then vice president, arrived at his home and said, “I know you're not okay, Hunter. Do you need help". Hunter Biden recalls: “He never let me forget that all was not lost. He never left me, never avoided me, never judged me, no matter how bad things got—and believe me, things will get much, much worse.”

He bought crack from a homeless drug addict who later moved in with him.

“The relationship was symbiotic,” he writes. “These were two drug addicts who couldn’t get out.”

Biden describes his journey from smoking crack to making it straightforward; his abusive relationships with questionable dealers and hangers-on with sticky fingers; and the desperate gimmicks he used when faced with drug tests, including buying "clean urine."

He tried to quit crack with ketamine infusions, psychoactive compounds and 5-MeO-DMT therapy, "which uses the secretions of the glands of the Sonoran desert toad." He does not disclose how he paid for these procedures.

“Once you decide that you are the bad guy everyone thinks you are, it will be hard to find the good guy you once were,” Biden writes. “Eventually I stopped looking for him: I decided that I was no longer the person that everyone who loved me thought I was.”

Hunter goes on to tell the story of how he made his way through a homeless camp in Los Angeles in search of a dose.

“I walked and walked around people curled up on thin pieces of cardboard. Behind them I noticed an unlit tent leaning over. It was pitch black. All I saw was a gun pointed at my face,” he writes.

In the next chapter, we see Joe Biden chasing his son down the driveway after family intervention: “He grabbed me, turned me around and hugged me. He held me tightly in the dark and cried for a very long time.

Biden does not justify his addiction, but describes that he felt "alone in the crowd"

Of the car accident that killed his mother and sister, Biden writes: “To be clear, I do not believe that this tragic moment necessarily triggered behavior that led to addiction. That would be an excuse. "

But he describes a lingering feeling of anxiety, especially in social situations. “This kind of insecurity is almost universal among people with real addiction problems—feeling alone in a crowd. I always felt alone in a crowd,” he writes.

Biden and affairs in Ukraine

Hunter Biden's first "coming of age job" was at the Brandywine Zoo in Wilmington - "I shoveled piles of poop from a llama as tall as me and cleaned the drain in the otter pool" - but he is best known for his membership on the board of directors Burisma Holdings.

“The episode that led to the impeachment of the President and placed me at the heart of the biggest political fable of the decade is most remarkable for its epic banality,” the memoir says.

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He then proceeds to describe the incident in an 18-page chapter, which reads like a research paper written by a reluctant student. Was Biden appointed to the council because of his last name? Perhaps, he writes, but: "I've always tried to work harder so that my accomplishments speak for themselves."

“I have not done anything unethical and have never been accused of wrongdoing,” Biden adds.

He thanks his wife Melissa Cohen for her sobriety

In March 2019, Hunter Biden "ended the world of politics by figuring out how to campaign with his father if it comes to that." He writes: "I was a drug addict, that's all."

He was asked to vacate the hotel in Los Angeles where he lived, but before leaving, he befriended several people who gave him the number of a South African director named Melissa Cohen.

An hour after the first dinner, they confessed their love to each other. An hour later, Biden confessed to Melissa that he was a drug addict. And she said, “No more. It's finished".

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