On tonight's episode of Gone Too Far, you met Breezy, an alcoholic with a tendency to get violent when she drinks. With the help of DJ AM, Breezy got help at a treatment center in California. Check out how she's doing two months later...

On what's happening in her life now: I drank a couple weeks after leaving treatment. An old drinking buddy came to visit, and we ended up having a couple of beers. I didn't even get drunk -- I felt too guilty. I've slipped four times since I've been back. That's pretty bad, but I don't actively plan to go out and drink. Not at all.

On her temper: I didn't get violent when I drank those times, but one of the nights I had way too much. I ended up going outside [to the parking lot] and getting into my friend's car to go to sleep.

On needing a support group: I have my girlfriend and my best friend, but they're not alcoholics. They expect me not to [drink], but I wouldn't call that support. They don't want me to drink, but they don't really sit down and talk to me reasonably about it. My girlfriend will just freak out.

I want to go to [meetings]. I plan on going, but right now I don't have my own transportation. That makes it hard. I live with my grandparents. My grandma's pretty busy and my grandpa's like 70-something. My girlfriend doesn't have a car either, and my best friend does college and all this other stuff. It sucks that I don't get to go.
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When a serious subject like drug addiction is tackled by a TV production crew, it's not just the people on camera who become affected by what unfolds. Below, check out Gone Too Far Producer Amy Bonezzi's notes on what it was like to film Breezy's story...

I was greatly affected by Breezy's story. Unlike some of the heroin and pill addicts we’ve worked with for Gone Too Far, she didn't drink constantly throughout the day. There were many times when she was sober. The problem was that when she did drink, which was often, she had no limits and would drink until she was completely out of control -- fighting or blacking out.

Seeing Breezy drink, although it was upsetting, wasn’t nearly as bad as seeing her become violent. When she was drinking, I not only worried about her safety, but the safety of everyone around her.

The night we shot the scene where Breezy got into a fight was particularly scary. We were in the middle of the woods in Texas with only the light from our cameras. The fight got so violent that our crew had to stop shooting because we needed to get out of the situation.
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