I Drank For Almost 30 Years Before I Finally Got Sober

Rise Above with Kevin Lanning · Oct 6, 2026 · 1h 34m

Polly Pierce spent nearly three decades lost in alcoholism — and from the outside, she kept up the appearance of a churchgoing mom who had it together. Underneath was a life unraveling: a toxic boyfriend who was a bookie, the afternoon she opened her door to a gun pointed at her face, fifteen years in an abusive relationship, two DUIs, a drunk-driving crash that nearly killed her, and jail. She buried her mother, raised someone else's children while her own world fell apart, and eventually watched her oldest son walk out the door — gone for seven years.

Her turning point came when the man who…