{"id":35167,"date":"2013-12-26T01:44:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T01:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35167"},"modified":"2013-12-26T01:44:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T01:44:02","slug":"de-blasio%e2%80%99s-daughter-reveals-substance-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35167","title":{"rendered":"De Blasio\u2019s Daughter Reveals Substance Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\" http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/25\/nyregion\/de-blasios-daughter-admits-to-substance-abuse.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>De Blasio\u2019s Daughter Reveals Substance Abuse<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2013-12-24<\/p>\n<p><strong>Javier C. Hernandez<\/strong> and <strong>Michael M. Grynbaum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/25\/nyregion\/de-blasios-daughter-admits-to-substance-abuse.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2013\/12\/25\/nyregion\/25DEBLASIO\/25DEBLASIO-popup.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nChiara de Blasio, right, with her parents in September. <small>Michael Appleton for The New York Times<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Days before her father\u2019s inauguration, the 19-year-old daughter of Mayor-elect <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_de_Blasio\" target=\"_blank\">Bill de Blasio<\/a> disclosed a history of drug and alcohol abuse that his campaign had taken pains to shield throughout a candidacy that relied heavily on the image of a happy and tight-knit family from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a carefully crafted video distributed on Tuesday by her father\u2019s staff, Chiara de Blasio spoke in candid terms about a battle with depression throughout her adolescence that led to drinking and drug use, habits that worsened when she was attending college in California last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt didn\u2019t start out as like a huge thing for me, but then it became a really huge thing for me,\u201d Ms. de Blasio said in the five-minute video, in which she sat alone on screen, accompanied by soft piano music&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Such is the celebrity of Mr. de Blasio\u2019s children that Ms. de Blasio\u2019s announcement on Tuesday was met with a statement from the director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Office_of_National_Drug_Control_Policy\" target=\"_blank\">Office of National Drug Control Policy<\/a> at the White House, who praised her \u201ctremendous bravery in speaking out about her recovery.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Hank Sheinkopf, a political consultant, said the city had elected a family when it chose Mr. de Blasio in November, and that New Yorkers should expect his wife and children to continue to play a prominent role&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nJKmjx1JjwI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\" http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/25\/nyregion\/de-blasios-daughter-admits-to-substance-abuse.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>De Blasio\u2019s Daughter Reveals Substance Abuse The New York Times 2013-12-24 Javier C. Hernandez and Michael M. Grynbaum Chiara de Blasio, right, with her parents in September. Michael Appleton for The New York Times Days before her father\u2019s inauguration, the 19-year-old daughter of Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio disclosed a history of drug and alcohol abuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,20],"tags":[15381,16178,16624,16625,16327,16326,2711,596,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-35167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-chiara-de-blasio","tag-javier-c-hernandez","tag-javier-hernandez","tag-michael-grynbaum","tag-michael-m-grynbaum","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}