WEBVTT - Fentanyl: An Urgent Warning For All 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.720 Hey, fam I'm Jada Pinkett Smith and this is the 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:06.080 Red Table Pop podcast all your favorite episodes from the 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:10.239 Facebook Watch show in audio produced by Westbrook Audio and 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:13.360 I Heart Radio. Please don't forget to rate and review 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:19.840 on Apple Podcasts. On September six, five time Emmy nominated 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:25.640 actor Michael Kay Williams was founded Michael's nephews, telling a 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:29.360 story for the first time fentanyl and urgent warning. I'm 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:33.320 positive that he would not have knowingly taken fentyel. Fentanyl 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:38.440 is everywhere middle schools, concert parties. We went back to 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:40.840 my voice, the four of us, and we were doing 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:43.680 some coke there. Who was my friend? See this is 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:45.560 the part that's hard to talk about for me. Three 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:50.040 of your friends died. What is fentanyl? A hospital grade 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:53.600 painkiller now turned into a deadly poison laced into drugs 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:58.280 like marijuana, cocaine, xanax, and perkison. It's like playing Russian roulette. 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:02.280 It's cheap to make an incrediblely addictive It's invisible, odorless, 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:05.160 and you can't taste it. It took one pell and 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.560 it took her off the face of planet forever. It 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.800 was grains of sand worth of fentanyl. Fentnyl is now 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:15.319 the number one killer of adults stages eighteen to forty five. 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.280 The scariest part people have no idea they're taking it. 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.640 The life saving Red Table every family must watch. I 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.520 would be dead, There's no question in my mind about that. 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:37.040 We have to get focus. We are doing fentanyl. This 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.679 is gonna be a good show. Yeah, I need you 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:43.000 and your siblings to pay attention. Mom. Let me ask 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:46.920 you a question while you were using If you knew 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:51.360 this was on the street at the time and people 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:58.320 were dying, do you think that would have helped you stop? No? 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:03.919 Absolutely not really. I'm so glad that it wasn't because 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:08.200 I've o d before. I would definitely be dead that. 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:12.840 There's no question in my mind about that. Right On 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:18.800 September six, five time Emmy nominated actor and producer Michael 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:22.959 Kay Williams was found dead from fent nol. Michael rose 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.320 to fame playing Omar Little, one of the most memorable 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:30.919 characters from HBO's iconic series The Wire. I ave never 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.120 put mink on on Nobody who wasn't in the game. 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:37.880 Critics called this performance a groundbreaking portrayal of black masculinity 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:42.840 on television. By age nineteen, Michael's battling a raging drug 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:46.120 and alcohol addiction. On his twenty fifth birthday, he was 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.079 brutally attacked with a razor blade, resulting in the scar 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:53.320 many say defined his career. Michael spent years in and 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:56.079 out of rehab. There was some turbulence in my young 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.360 adult life. I'm recovering addict. Yeah, I mean drugs was 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:03.560 on my way of coping with the pain. Last September 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.840 he relapsed and ingested heroine he did not know was 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:10.760 laced with a deadly amount of ventnyl. Just weeks ago, 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:18.040 for men were arrested and charged in Michael's death. Michael's nephew, Dominic, 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.239 was the one who discovered his body. He's telling his 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.720 story for the first time. We're really glad to have 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:28.760 you here. Thank you. I think a lot of what happened, 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:32.919 what I saw in September six, I'm still processing. Michael 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.960 was an amazing human being. What was going on the 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:40.680 day that you found your uncle? I was shopping what 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.560 my wife. Mike had some work to do the next 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.320 day and had reached out to him the night before, 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:50.560 and I was concerned that I had not heard from him. 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.960 We made the decision. You go to his house. And 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:59.560 I went upstairs, opened up his door and it was quiet. 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:03.520 My always played music. That wasn't the case. I stuck 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.440 my head and I said, uncle, Mike, are you in here? 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:12.360 And I observed him deceased. Immediately called nine on one. 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.240 They said, listen, you know, do you want to start 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:19.440 some compressions? And I said, I'm telling you, he's deceased. 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:24.120 He's gone, he's cold. I spoke to Michael's publician. She said, Dominic, 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:26.080 you know this is going to be on the news 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.479 in like another hour, I'm telling you. And I looked 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:30.360 out as window and I saw all the reporters, and 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:37.000 you know, I thought about, you know, the responsibility and 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.719 my responsibility, my accountability to get the word out about 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.880 how this doesn't have to be you or your loved one. 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:49.080 Had he shown any signs before then, whoever relapsed, Mike 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.360 was doing well, he was working on a book. It 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:55.040 did not appear to me that Mike was sliding back 0:04:55.080 --> 0:05:00.839 into addiction. I've been home for year. Is are served 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.880 a long time in prison. Michael and his nephew were 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:08.000 always close. When nineteen year old Dominic was convicted of murder, 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.640 Michael remained his mentor. Dominic shot and killed a man 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.760 while defending his twin brother, Nolan in a fight. He 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.800 was sentenced to twenty five years in prison. Could you 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:21.320 or would you have handled the situation differently? I laid 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.680 on at night in that cage and I say to myself, 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:30.760 what happened? Would you go wrong? Dominick was granted clemency 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:34.360 based on his leadership and positive impact on the prison system. 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:40.479 He ended up serving twenty years twenty years seven days, 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:43.200 and the four and a half years that I had 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:47.800 been home, Mike didn't appear to be overwhelmed or dealing 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:52.839 with any major issues. But Michael also worked really hard 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:57.800 not to have the things that he was going through 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.920 way on other people. And he was an actor, right 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.240 and you can you know, you can fool people, you 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.960 can convince people that you're okay. But what I would 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:09.000 say is this, I'm positive that he would not have 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:17.080 knowingly taken fentinng that I know that, like I know 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.240 my first name, why was it important for you to 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:25.640 come today? Fentinol finding its way into our communities is 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.960 the reason why I know Michael would want me here. 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.359 A huge part of what my life entails now is 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:39.320 honoring his legacy. You know, we were young black men 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.200 coming up in a really rough neighborhood and East Flatbush, 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.400 and Michael believed we don't sit back and just look 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:49.360 at things fall apart and just and just become complacent. 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:54.200 And if we do, we're complicit. We have to work 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:58.360 hard to make people aware about what's happening so that 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.200 other people don't have to feel the type of pain 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.320 that I felt. Yeah, my understanding is that you're actually 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:11.400 living with Michael's mother. She's an amazing human being. She's 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:16.640 ninety four years old, and her grit, her strength, you know, 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:21.440 I see what Michael got it from. She is just amazing. 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.920 It makes this process of grieving just a little bit 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:30.480 more tolerable. Yeah, now, I know Michael had a long, 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:35.440 long history struggling with substance abuse. From a young age. 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:40.320 He struggled and h I'll never forget. I was about 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.520 six or seven years old. This is right before his 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:48.160 first rehab and he came to my house early in 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.280 the morning and it was a little argument that ensued 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:54.160 because her substance abuseing. You know, family is you know, 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.800 a little fed up. Michael looked me, right, my eyes 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:05.440 and he said, Dominic, get me. Don't you ever ever ever? 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.239 You strugs, and then he put his hands on my face. 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.360 I could feel his breath and he said, do you 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:19.920 hear me ever? Ever? Ever? And when I was in 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:23.840 prison and felt like insanity was creeping in on me, 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:30.800 I would hear that conversation. One of the things I 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.120 try to live by is this mantra that I have 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.080 that you know, setback is a set up for a comeback. 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:41.720 The history of how people is about coming back. Is 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.120 there anything else you want to share? I want to 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:48.840 say thank you so much for just letting people know 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.599 that there's no one on this planet that's perfect to 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:58.200 use these conversations so that other people can figure things out. 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.320 That to me is so important. At the work that 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:05.240 you guys are doing here not alread table talk, people 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.400 are gonna be listening, They're gonna be watching, They're gonna 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.760 be saying to themselves, if this can happen to an 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.240 amazing human being like him, it can happen to me, 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:17.400 and if we can prevent that, then we're doing the 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:22.120 right thing. That was nice, sad for my soul. Yeah, 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:28.320 that's beautiful. Thank you. This headline making tragedy is a 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:33.720 terrifying warning. Last September, comedian Kate quickly met up with 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.640 three friends after performing at a comedy club. Like Kate, 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.400 two of them were stables on the l a comedy scene. 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:44.400 Enrico Colan, Jelly Fu, Kwan Johnson, and his friend Natalie 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:48.640 Williamson the foreign Jestic cocaine, but did not know it 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:52.839 was laced with fentanyl. Kate passed out and was unconscious 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:57.320 for seventeen hours. She woke up disoriented, unable to move 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:02.480 her legs, and made a grisly discovery her friends Food, Rico, 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:07.800 and Natalie were dead. Okate is here to share her 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.480 story for the first time. Thank you so much for 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:14.080 coming on. Thank you guys so much. So what do 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:17.080 you remember about that night? Oh man, that night was 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:20.480 so crazy. First of all, I'm so horrified people died, 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:22.760 and I was nervous to come here because you feel 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.800 shame about something like this, you know, yeah, sure, but 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.000 I'm so great won't have a chance to talk about it. 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.160 The hardest part for me is okay, Well, Food was 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:36.040 my friend Rico I knew, and Natalie had just met. 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.200 I wish I knew more about now. She was so nice. 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.560 I just met her that night. She was hanging with food. 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.520 Food was the best. She's so real, So I love 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:48.679 the best. Froom love that name. He was awesome. This 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:52.080 is my friend f Quan. I said, we've met forty 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.520 five times. He says we've met approximately one thousand times. 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:59.480 I think it's more like that. That's why I loved 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:03.080 him so much. So I did a show. I saw 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.199 Food there. I saw Rico with the club too. We 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.040 went back to my place, the four of us, and 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.640 we were doing some coke there. I mean after a 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.240 comedy show. Honestly, like occasionally that's like I kind of 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.160 a normal night, right, It's not like it was a 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:20.280 crazy night. I always like, I like to do it 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.640 for fun, but I was always a baby about it, honestly, 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:24.680 like I'm the one that does like the quarter of 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.480 what everyone does, which is where I lived. I did 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:31.200 like teeny bit of a line and then um, I 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:34.640 went to the bathroom and what's wild is on the 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.360 way out of the bathroom, I couldn't even butt my pants. 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:41.160 I was already that disoriented, right, and I said, something's 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.520 not right about this. I don't feel well. I knew 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:47.600 something was wrong right away. I felt nauseous. I sat 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.560 down and that's the last thing I remember, and I 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.920 passed out in this chair and Rico was sitting across 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.679 from me in the room, so I heard me to 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:01.160 talk about that it's okay, but anyway, and I passed 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:05.280 out on a chair like sideways. And when I passed out, 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.440 my legs stayed in this chair. My head hit the floor. 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.120 So anyway, that was like six am, and it was 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.160 like the morning, morning, and I woke up and it 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:15.679 was dark, and it was like a loving at night 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:19.960 or something. Yeah, and the first thing I thought, I 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.680 swear to God, is oh my God, why is it dark? 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:30.680 My doors are open? All I saw is Rico. Yeah. 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.560 I was just so confused. I come through my legs, 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:38.319 but I thought like they were asleep. I went to stand, 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:42.120 and that's when I really realized, and I started to 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:45.560 get scared. I started saying, hey, Rico, Rico, I thought 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.680 he fell asleep. He even still had like the guitar, 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.880 he was holding guitars in his hands. It never crossed 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:52.840 my mind he was dead because he didn't look dead. 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.920 I couldn't see food and Natalie because my head was 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:57.400 on the floor and they were up on a couch 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:01.080 around the corner, and so I called my uncle. I 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:05.480 still thought Rico was okay until I threw a shoe 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:07.200 at the door next day and it didn't wake up. 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.800 I started to panic, and then like two minutes later, 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:15.160 my uncle walked in and immediately walked over and he 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:16.760 touched him and he was cold, and he called and 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:22.320 I won one. Right. The rest was I mean, see, 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.040 this is the part that's hard to talk about for me. 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:31.160 It was horrifically. Three of your friends died. Yeah, it 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:35.080 was hard when the paramedics came and they were like, 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:37.520 are you into hanging out with dead people? Is that 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.920 your thing? You like partying with corpses? That's what you 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.480 and your friends do. You like dead bodies. But I 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:46.160 don't want to sound like what was me And the 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.360 rest of the night was brutal on me, But that's 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.000 like my own fault, you know what I mean. I 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:54.679 had total kidney failure, three ruptured disks in my bag, 0:13:55.040 --> 0:14:00.480 three ruptured discs because you and also they're not very 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:04.520 nice to at the hospital when they think you're a junkie. 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.360 They're not kind. You almost feel like the only people 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.800 that understand other people have died and then they're gone. 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.880 I felt guilty like I didn't do more, but then 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.040 I know I couldn't. I've just been having a hard 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:21.520 time with like not feeling I have to defend myself totally. 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:25.200 When did you learn from this experience? Just everything I 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:29.640 thought matter, doesn't you know? Because during this business, when 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:33.000 things get real tough, there's not many people that stand 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:36.640 up for you, and those people are all you need. 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.520 And it's like money and all the things you just 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.120 think make you happy, but and and like, it really 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.320 makes no difference because in a minute, it's gone. It's gone, 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.200 Like that night we're laughing. In thirty seconds later, it's over, 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.560 and it just changes you. And for me, like drugs 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:54.560 was never an issue as much. For me, it was 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.400 always a party thing. So my whole career people hated 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.200 on me, but the trolls and all the haters it 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:02.680 never got to me. But it did with this. As 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:06.920 tributes and high profile condolence is poured in vicious finger 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.920 pointing began on the comedy circuit and in social media comments, 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:15.720 Kate became a pariah. She says she has been repeatedly 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:19.480 blamed for the deaths of food, Rico and Natalie. Some 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.720 have gone as far as accusing Kate of killing three people. 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.920 It's different to be called a murderer and stuff. People 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:30.560 would say to me like that's my friend. It was 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:34.840 very not about image and all this Hollywood stuff. It 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.480 was just like real, I feel like he's with me sometimes. 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.120 I feel him around my house. I swear to God, 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.840 like when I'm having a hard time, I feel that sometimes. 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:46.280 So that's been helpful. Yeah, I have felt so isolated 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.280 at times in this and so like no one can understand. 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.600 So what has been a coping mechanism? My therapist giving 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:58.080 this tip, Sit down and write a note to yourself 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:02.000 from your soul, like your soul doesn't judge you, like 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:03.800 your soul wants to be proud of you, and then 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.840 right back and forth. And I never spent time alone 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.440 with my thoughts like that because it terrifies me. So 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:14.280 like when I am having trouble now or I beat 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.440 myself up, I'll do that. I'll sit and do that. 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:20.160 It really helps totally give me an example of how 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.440 you beat yourself up. I know I've been trying to 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:27.160 figure out how to deal with the PTSD stuff. I 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:32.040 definitely have had trouble controlling, some rage, and some parts 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.600 of this where I've sent some texts that I wish 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.000 I hadn't or mashed out at people in a way 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.280 that's not something I would have ever done. Before I 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.760 moved into a new apartment and for like three weeks 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.880 just stay at home, barely showered, didn't leave my house. 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:50.160 I just I just pride so hard. I don't know 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:54.000 anyone else who lived through this. To be honest, it's terrifying. 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:58.440 But I'm like, maybe I live to talk about this 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:02.400 because people messed up. Man, It's okay to start from 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.119 the bottom and you know, kind of dig out. I 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.440 don't know, to be careful with your drugs. I mean, 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:11.040 I still don't know where the guy got it, just 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:15.600 like that, from wanting to have a good time to 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:20.040 your life turning into a nightmare for a minute. The 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.840 thing about this that I really think is important. I 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:26.080 think there's this misconception they think people are trying to 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:30.960 buy a fentyl or and it's not that it's poison. 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:35.159 Du So you want people to know that you don't 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:40.159 know when you buyin exactly. So it's not like you 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:44.680 were like, hey, let's go out and get some. I mean, 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:48.280 it's like, hey, this is we've done lines of cocaine before, 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.080 and it's not like you overdid it and you didn't 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:52.520 know that it was even and you don't know what's 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:55.560 in there. Yeah, is there anything else that you might 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.640 want to say? I have gotten reached out to buy 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:00.879 tons of people who have lost loved ones from the 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:03.560 tons kids. But like for the people that have reached that, 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:08.000 I'm so it helps. Every positive message helps. I really 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:12.640 really mean that, and I'm grateful, really grateful. I haven't 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.800 gotten to speak to like um, the parents of food 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:19.720 or natal I will be happy to. I think you 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:24.639 gaining the courage and the strength to share your testimony 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:30.480 is really powerful important because what you've been through is heavy. 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.960 Your testimony can literally save a life. Yeah, you know, 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.080 I hope. So I'm still a mess, and you know, 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:42.359 I mean I'm the definitely don't want to ask it 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:45.119 sounds like I've got it together by any means. I don't. 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:49.080 But it's one day at a time. I mean, like 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:52.439 that night, I wish it didn't happen that way, but 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.040 I can't fix it. All you can do is try 0:18:56.080 --> 0:19:02.920 to move forward and do better. Thank you guys, Olivia 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:06.480 Green's mother has barely left the house since her daughter's death. 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:09.400 Just over a year ago, she agreed to fly across 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.840 the country in hopes of saving another child's life. This 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:17.080 is Olivia Story. Fifteen year old Olivia Green was a 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:20.960 creative and fun loving teen with an infectious sense of humor. 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:25.040 She loved to dance, make silly videos, then go to 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:32.159 camp every summer. She dreamed of being a marine biologist. 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:38.280 Hello mother's birthday. Olivia had three siblings and was best 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:40.639 friends with her younger brother, Jet, who was on the 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:45.440 autism spectrum. Last April, the night before Easter, Olivia told 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:47.639 her mom she was having a sleepover with a friend 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:50.840 and ended up meeting an eighteen year old male she 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:54.159 was chatting with online. He gave her a painkiller that 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:59.360 was unknowingly laced with fentinel. Soon after, Olivia was dead. 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:06.439 M hmm, thank you so much for having me. It's 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:11.240 very hard. I know, this is really it's very fresh. 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:14.359 I mean, this is last you never get over. Yeah, 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:20.320 can you tell us what happened? Yeah, it was Easter 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:25.000 and my cell phone ring and it was four in 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:30.240 the morning, and it was the hospital and they asked 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:32.959 to speak to the mother of Olivia Green, and I 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:37.080 was like, this is her because Olivia, Okay, can you 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:39.359 just tell me so I'm not going to panic on 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:42.640 wait and they said you can't talk about that over 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:46.359 the phone. So I just went in the clothes that 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:51.240 I was sleeping in and rushed straight there. I told 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:54.639 the triage on the mother of Olivia Green, and she 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:57.359 just got about her booth and went straight to the 0:20:57.400 --> 0:20:59.600 back and then she told the security to come stand 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:03.360 next me. So now I'm really worried, like did Olivia 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:07.600 do something bad? Then their emergency room doors open and 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:12.200 like eight ten doctors came out. They pulled me into 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:17.400 this little room and I was like, um, there's Olivia. Okay. 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:23.040 They just put their heads down and they shook their 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:33.560 head and they said, no, We're sorry. We tried lit'sten 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:41.160 sooner confused what happened to Olivia. They just said fencing overdose. 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:45.680 I'm like founting all overdose. I never heard the word 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:49.680 friends and no before my I know the word overdose 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:53.240 means you abused drugs. Right, We're not talking about the 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:57.720 same Olivia. My Olivia is a little girl, thank goodness. 0:21:58.160 --> 0:22:00.720 And um they asked me to very find my name 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:05.520 and her birthday, and they said it that's the right Olivia. Yeah, 0:22:05.880 --> 0:22:10.399 I just started screap, so I was I need to 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:19.400 say her right now. Yeah, I didn't think it's yeah, 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:25.000 she doesn't use trucks. So they took me to the 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:30.879 back and Olivia had a white sheet over and all 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:33.480 I saw was her life. The same was dangling off 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:38.000 the bed, right, So I didn't want to go near 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:41.120 the body because I didn't want it to really beat 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:44.199 my out of you. And I was waiting for family 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:48.760 to shop so I can be with me. Crime scene 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:52.840 walks in and I said, sorry for you loss, we 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:57.080 need to take pictures like crime scene. So I just 0:22:57.119 --> 0:23:06.480 seen him take the white sheet offer her and it 0:23:07.200 --> 0:23:16.600 was cheese. It was really my Olivia was so confused. 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:22.160 She was completely naked and nobody't know anything. Where did 0:23:22.200 --> 0:23:24.879 you think she went that night? But she supposed to 0:23:24.920 --> 0:23:27.159 stay at her best friend's house and she lied to 0:23:27.200 --> 0:23:31.199 me and went somewhere else. Right, She went to go 0:23:31.359 --> 0:23:36.240 see a guy right who was an adult because like 0:23:36.359 --> 0:23:39.399 nine tune, she was a little girl. And this is 0:23:39.480 --> 0:23:42.399 someone that she met online. I think they met on 0:23:42.440 --> 0:23:45.600 snapcher having an idea, and detective said she barely know, 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:50.399 like they just met. So the detective was able to 0:23:50.600 --> 0:23:52.879 talk to the guy that she went to see because 0:23:52.880 --> 0:23:57.080 he can call the police, right, but he didn't call 0:23:57.160 --> 0:24:01.080 for help right away. Do they know what drug he gave? 0:24:01.160 --> 0:24:04.560 It was a percoset. He was a percose of fendonose. 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:08.280 What killed her? It never made the media. A little 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:11.640 girl dropped dead and nobody thinks this is important. When 0:24:11.680 --> 0:24:14.360 she died, it's it's almost like they looked at her 0:24:14.680 --> 0:24:17.119 like she was a drunk at it, like her life 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:21.359 meant nothing. And I don't use the word overtox. Overdose 0:24:21.440 --> 0:24:26.920 implies that you knowingly and carelessly took too much of something. Right, 0:24:27.560 --> 0:24:30.560 Olivia took one pill and it took her off the 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:34.439 face of the planet forever. She didn't overdose. It was 0:24:34.520 --> 0:24:38.600 grains of sand worth of fentonyl that killed. She was 0:24:38.680 --> 0:24:44.760 poisoned to death. Right, So it looks like Olivia's father, Bruce, 0:24:45.720 --> 0:24:49.639 is going to join us by zoom. Hello Bruce, thank you, 0:24:49.760 --> 0:24:51.159 thank you for having me. What is it that you 0:24:51.160 --> 0:24:54.680 would like us to know about Olivia? I beg God, 0:24:55.000 --> 0:24:59.720 I mean I beg God for a little girl. He 0:25:00.000 --> 0:25:07.720 bless me with Olivia and then fifteen years later, she's gone, Yeah. 0:25:07.920 --> 0:25:09.960 It's not one of the roughest things a parent will 0:25:10.000 --> 0:25:12.920 ever deal with. It is the roughest thing a parent 0:25:12.960 --> 0:25:17.240 will ever deal with. Absolutely, the initial drug dealer that 0:25:17.359 --> 0:25:20.159 puts the fetanol inside of all of the percocets and 0:25:20.200 --> 0:25:23.480 everything else, he's a murderer. I mean, he knows the 0:25:23.480 --> 0:25:26.639 fetanol is killing everybody, and you're sticking it in weed, 0:25:27.080 --> 0:25:29.199 is stinking in everything that you can possibly find so 0:25:29.280 --> 0:25:32.840 you can make an extra dollar. Exactly what happened to 0:25:32.920 --> 0:25:37.800 the man who gave Olivia the drug? So he made 0:25:37.800 --> 0:25:42.399 the ninth one one call. And there's a law called 0:25:42.440 --> 0:25:47.320 good Samarratan, So he was the hitro in New York City. 0:25:47.680 --> 0:25:50.200 As long as you call the police, you don't get charged. 0:25:51.720 --> 0:25:55.880 Inside this law, there's no stipulation of times. So if 0:25:55.920 --> 0:25:58.439