A devastated mum has channelled her grief into a campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of drug addiction after her daughter tragically died from a cocaine overdose. Melissa Ledesma's life was torn apart when her 20 year old daughter Angel succumbed to her three-year struggle with substance abuse in June. Melissa, from Illinois, opened up about her own difficult past, saying: "I was a teenage mum, pregnant with my first daughter at age 17.
Angel was my second born, followed by two sons. I once struggled myself with substance use, which began when I was 20 after my best friend was killed by a drunk driver." She went on to share her personal battle with addiction: "I battled a cocaine addiction for two years before becoming sober.
Shortly after becoming sober, I met Angel's dad, who manufactured meth, and I started using it with him. Although I never used while pregnant, I didn't achieve sobriety until I was 25, a year before my fourth child." READ MORE: How an innocent pubgoer's life was ended after a night of socialising and dancing READ MORE: The expectant couple living in a bed on a Cardiff roundabout as they had nowhere else to go Melissa described their tumultuous family life: "With or without drugs, our marriage was volatile and abusive, with numerous arrests for domestic violence against me and countless orders of protection.
We divorced in 2011, remarried others, and eventually divorced again." Reflecting on her relationship with Angel, Melissa mentioned that th.
