AE: Oh, man. Did they ever fix that?
CB: Yeah, I had my uterus removed last year.
AE: So how does the dependence play out?
CB: It's just addiction, there's so many components – there's the physical component, the psychological component, there's the things that start to come along with it – that whatever the problem that you're trying fix, it ends up exacerbating. It's a fairly complicated disease.
AE: When you stopped the OxyContin, did you have to go through treatment, or did you do it on your own?
CB: No, I went to treatment.
AE: And that was about two years ago?
CB: Yeah, it was two years ago tomorrow.
AE: In your bio it says you were on the meds for a very long time, was it a ten-year period?
CB: About that.
AE: So you were in your mid-twenties?
CB: Yeah.
AE: You had a career, and you were writing books and working for different organizations, but at what point did the pills change your ability to have a productive life. Did you just not get out of bed?
CB: All pain killers are depressants, so for me I was never loopy like Jeff was. It wasn't like I couldn't function because I was so loaded I couldn't do anything, it was more the depression and also your life just starts to revolve around doing your drugs – that's all you care about – it's just a constant obsession that takes over your life.
AE: So now you're pain free?
CB: Yeah, when I had that surgery last year, it finally took care of it once and for all.
AE: Now that you're done with Fit Club have you maintained friendships with anyone?
CB: Oh yeah definitely. Tempest Bledsoe and I are very tight and Marvin (Young “Young MC”) and I are pretty tight. I talk to Kelly (LeBrock), unfortunately she lives far away. And Bruce Vilanch.
AE: Your girlfriend Jen was on the show with you, I didn't realize until it aired that you just started dating really briefly before the show started.
CB: About a month, a month and a half before.
AE: Are you living together?
CB: Uh huh.
AE: Where did you meet?
CB: We met at my house.
AE: (laughs) That's convenient.
CB: Yeah it was convenient. We got fixed up by mutual friends and she came over for a barbeque.
AE: And it was instant attraction?
CB: Yeah, we got along really well from the get-go, as soon as we were able to sit down and start talking one-on-one, we hit it off.
AE: What does she do?
CB: She's an actress and a writer.
AE: At what point did you decide she'd be on the show?
CB: They asked if she would be on it. She would come with me to work so everybody knew her. So they asked at one point if she would do it and she said yes.
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