Mum blew £70k on secret cocaine behavior and snorted traces to do hoovering
Jade, 28, from near Harwich, Essex, is now in recovery and urging others to seek help after her four-year daily cocaine habit cost her £70,000, admitting she was neglecting her own ability to look after herself
Jade dropped to just six stone after relapsing with her cocaine addiction(Image: Kennedy News and Media)
An Essex stay-at-home mum has admitted she became so addicted to cocaine she had to ‘snort a line’ just to do everyday chores. This was fine for the woman, until one day, when the class-A drug ‘ruined’ her life.
Jade Flynn, 30, first tried cocaine at the age of 16 while at a house party with friends, admitting she felt a ‘connection’ with the drug instantly. For the next two years, Jade would take cocaine most weekends before stopping entirely when she welcomed her two children.
But after she suffered problems with her relationship five years ago, the mum-of-two decided to turn to the drug again. But this this time, the drug addiction spiralled and before long was spending £300 a week on her hidden habit.
In the space of just four years, Jade began sniffing cocaine for “breakfast, lunch and dinner” — admitting she would “snort a line” to build up the energy just to vacuum. The 5ft 8in mum dropped to just under six stone and developed a bump in her nose due to years of cocaine abuse eroding her nasal cavity.
Things luckily changed in August of last year, when Jade decided enough was enough and ditched the drug for good before it ultimately killed her. Jade is now urging others to reach out for support after the highly-addictive drug cost her an estimated £70,000 and “ruined her life”.
Jade, living near Harwich, Essex, confessed: “I’d been off it for four years before deciding to do it again one evening then went onto a four year every day binge. Drugs were very easy to get hold of and I was just sniffing cocaine every day. I could get it within minutes.
“I did it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I would just wake up and do a line. It got to the point where I could function with it.
“By the end I felt like I needed it. It became a necessity. I felt like I couldn’t do the housework without it, couldn’t speak to somebody without it,” she added. “I felt like I needed the energy to hoover the house by snorting lines.”
She admits that before her cocaine use, she felt like the perfect mum with the ideal family. However, her cocaine habit quickly started to take its toll.
Jade admitted: “It massively affected me being a mum. I wasn’t acting like a normal mum. I didn’t interact with the school mums or do the school run, they couldn’t have friends around.”
She went on to say the problem became so bad that it massively impacted her physically. “If you look at my nose from the side it has a severe bump where there never was before. I used to have a straight nose,” she explained, “I think part of my nasal cavity has eroded because of all the cocaine use.”
Last August, Jade chose to kick her cocaine habit for good after joining an addiction support group and is now encouraging others to get help. Jade explained: “My life is just ten times better now. I think I would’ve died from it eventually if I’d carried on. It was ruining my life.
“Cocaine is more socially accepted, everyone is doing it. There’s not the same stigma as there is with other drugs.
“I want to open some sort of support group once I’m further on in my recovery journey. I’d tell anyone else to open up to people and get out the house.”
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