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[sunshine45]

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@CrazyDaisy wrote:

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@JJsMom wrote:

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@CrazyDaisy wrote:

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That may be based on your personal experience, yet not based in facts.

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This incident wasn't isolated. THAT is a fact. But keep on defending him because you think it makes you look compassionate or something. He's lucky the worst thing that happened was that he was the only one hurt in his accident.

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You keep saying this is not an isolated incident, please elaborate.  I am not defending his actions, simply pointing out that everyone is jumping to conclusions about a man with no information.  If you have some proof that this is a long established pattern of alcohol and abuse to substantiate your statements I would like to see them.

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Randy Travis spent most of his teenage years getting arrested for breaking and entering, drinking, drugs, auto theft and a litany of other crimes. His older brother even landed in jail after a high-speed car chase. He finally straightened up when the judge, who was a family friend, told him he couldn’t save him anymore and he was facing years in prison. Elizabeth Hatcher, a club owner who saw promise in Travis’ budding singing career, took him under her guardianship to save him from prison.

http://www.wideopencountry.com/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-randy-travis/

[sunshine45]

After a series of embarrassing public incidents involving alcohol, country star Randy Travis has given up drinking. His lawyer, Larry Friedman, tells TMZ that the troubled singer has "eliminated alcohol from his daily life."

The 53-year-old singer of such classics as 'Forever and Ever, Amen' and 'On the Other Hand' has a decades-long history of problems with substance abuse which goes all the way back to his twenties, when he was arrested for burglary and car theft.

"I got into the drug thing, I totaled two motorcycles, and I got in at least 30 fights," Travis revealed in an interview with 'The 700 Club.' He credited his now ex-wife and manager, Elizabeth Hatcher, for helping to set him straight. "Having her in court the last time, saying that I was not drinking, not using drugs, not running with the same people anymore -- that kept me from going to prison."

http://tasteofcountry.com/randy-travis-gives-up-alcohol/

[JJsMom]

Thanks, Sunshine. :-)