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I think this whole show, you know, bringing my sister into this and dragging all this through the mud, is really—it’s appalling. I mean, I can’t believe that somebody would do that.
Well, the thing that seemed to kind of trouble her the most, I think, if you ask me, was she always wanted to be an artist, she always wanted to be a singer, a songwriter or stuff like that, and she never really went out and did that. And she, you know, that was—every time we’d talk about where she’d want to go and what she’d want to do with her life, it was always in the arts and things like that, and wanting to create stuff along those lines. And she never really got there or did that. And she did have a lot of difficulty with work and having a good job that she liked. It was always, you know, she did jobs that she just—it was an office job and not really fun, and she didn’t like that.
I mean, things—you know, younger she was a very carefree person and things like that. And then, as time went on, I think, she really got into—with friends that were out getting into trouble, drinking, doing drugs and things like that. And then as she got older, that seemed to kind of progress. And she got more into the drinking and more into the drugs. And then, sort of progressed along, where she had trouble with work, trouble...and it was from job to job to job.
And then that pattern just sort of seemed to get worse. You know, her lows got lower on that stuff, you know. When things fell off track, they’d fall off harder and she’d be more sad, and everything like that.
A number of her very, very close friends along the line had reached out to me either on Facebook or, you know, called me or texted me or something to ask how she was doing. Because everybody, you know, everybody loved Tayler and everyone wanted her to do well. And all of her Church friends were amongst that, and first and foremost want her to—you know, encourage her to do well, and wanted her to survive.
And my mother tried everything. I mean, earlier on, that started off with taking care of her, you know. Even as a twenty-five-year-old living at home, and she gave her food, she gave her money for everything and even let her use her car and things like that. And so, she took care of her, basically completely—or she did take care of her completely. And then later on, when things got very bad, I mean, my mom did everything . She was trying to get her counseling in every way, shape or form that she could come up with. Anything that seemed like it would actually work or help. She broke the bank. I mean, she spent every penny she had, and then some, doing everything—I mean, took her to doctors.
Everything else she tried under the sun, moon and stars. And it really, that’s—my mom’s been devastated by all of this. And when it occurred, you know, that really, really broke her, because she tried so hard. And even after, you know, she said to me a number of times, “Could I have done anything more?” And she was beside herself about that.
I mean, if anything, it’s, you know, I miss my sister a lot. You know, it’s a tough thing to have someone go like that, especially under those types of circumstances. It sucks and I miss my sister a lot. I don’t really talk about it much, but I do. And to, as we’re talking about earlier, to have that exploited and being used as some propaganda with some other agenda, in mind, is horrible.
I miss her and I really hate seeing that memory of her being drug around because she was a very amazing person, she really was. Of any of us children— we were all very determined, wanting to go out and create a better future and have fun and enjoy and do well for the world. And she, out of any of us, was probably the most creative, out of us three kids, she really was.
And so, this has affected my mother horribly. I mean, she—when she called me up, when she found out that this [Aftermath episode] was being done, she was crying . And the words that she said to me was, you know, “This whole thing was the worst experience of my life, and having it drug back up is just devastating.”
