In Hunter Biden’s new memoir Beautiful Things, he writes how his “deep descent” into drug addiction and alcohol abuse escalated following the death of his brother Beau Biden.
“After Beau died, I never felt more alone. I lost hope,” he wrote, according to an excerpt obtained by the Associated Press. The book is slated to be released on Tuesday.
Beau Biden, his older brother, succumbed to brain cancer in 2015 when he was 46 years old.
In the book, Hunter credited his second wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, for helping him sober up, and he also gave thanks to his father, President Joe Biden, and late brother for their love and support.
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Hunter Biden, 51, wrote that he was invited to a dinner with his family at their Delaware home in early 2019, only to find that the dinner was a type of intervention after he saw his three daughters and two counselors from a Pennsylvania rehabilitation center where he was previously a patient.
After darting out the door of the home, he was chased by Joe Biden, who grabbed him and hugged him. The president’s son agreed to check into a facility in Maryland and was driven by his brother’s widow Hallie, whom he had a relationship with.
When he was dropped at the facility, Biden called a ride service and checked into a hotel near Baltimore’s airport, where for “the next two days … I sat in my room and smoked the crack I’d tucked away in my traveling bag,” he wrote, adding that his family believed he was safe at the rehabilitation center.
Biden wrote how he felt that he developed a superpower for “the ability to find crack in any town, at any time, no matter how unfamiliar the terrain,” even having a gun raised to his face when he went on a five-month self-exile trip to Los Angeles in 2019.
While there, he met Melissa Cohen, a South African filmmaker who almost immediately helped him overcome his addiction.
“She pushed away everyone in my life connected to drugs,” taking away his electronic devices, car keys, and wallet, Biden wrote. She also reportedly deleted every contact in his phone who wasn’t family and threw away his crack cocaine.
After a brief period of helping him through his withdrawals, Biden asked if she would marry him. At first, she hesitated, according to Biden, but by the seventh day of knowing each other, she told him, “Let’s do it.”
The couple married in May 2019 and had their son Beau in 2020.
In another segment of Biden’s soon-to-be-released book, he details how he would not have worked on the board of the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma had he known the damage it would have caused to his father’s campaign.
His work for the firm played a role in the 2020 presidential election as former President Donald Trump and some of his allies sought to tie Biden and his father to alleged corruption, though neither have faced charges or have been accused of a crime.
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Biden also was recently criticized by two Republican lawmakers who sent inquiry letters to the FBI, the Secret Service, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives after a Firearms Transaction Records document purportedly signed by him showed he listed “no” on a questionnaire asking: “Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?”
His alleged response on the form came five years after he was discharged from the Navy Reserve following a positive test for cocaine. The GOP lawmakers filed their letters over concerns that lying on firearms forms is a potential felony, though offenders are rarely prosecuted for such actions.
