“I can remember the first time I drank, I just loved the way that it made me feel.”

Tayla Lynn is the granddaughter of legendary country music artist Loretta Lynn. She spent the first years of her life near the glow of her grandmother’s celebrity. But when her parents divorced and her mother remarried Tayla’s life suddenly changed.

Tayla remembers, “Their wedding night, uh, was the first time that he kicked me across the room, crawled down the hall into my bedroom. And it's one of those moments where you grow up all of a sudden really fast and go, oh, okay.”

In her teens Tayla turned to alcohol to take away the fear. She says it made her feel invincible, but inside she carried the burden of rejection. “I deserved it. It was my fault. Uh I think when you are a fighter, you think that you

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