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>> reporter: with all manner of self-medication including taking bills to control her emotions. >> any mood stabilizer is a weight gainer. you feel better but then youre fat, so what you gain is a loss. its not a good situation. >> reporter: fisher spoke about being bipolar and often turned pain into humor also writing "wishful drinking" and "shockohol "shockoholic." fisher was briefly married to paul simon in 1980s. years later she gave birth to a daughter billy katherine with her relationship ...

Up in front of all those people. >> it twirled up! >> reporter: she poked fun at show biz light and all manner of self-medication including taking pills to control her emotions. >> any mood stabilizer is a weight gainer. so you feel better, but then youre fat. so what you gain is a loss. its not a good situation. >> reporter: fisher spoke about being bipolar and often turned pain into humor. also writing "wishful drinking," and "shock-a-hollic." elizabeth taylor became her stepfather. she was br...

Thought of in the the car one day driving back from palm springs with the music up loud. >> reporter: she turned her acclaimed book into a movie starring meryl streep as a recovering addict embroiled in constant often funny mother/daughter drama. >> remember my 17th birthday party when you lifted your skirt up in front of all those -- >> i do not lift my skirt up! it twirled up! >> reporter: fisher poked fun at the absurdities of show biz life and all manner of self-medication, including taking ...

>> reporter: fisher poked fun at about sturdies of show business life and all manners of self-medication including taking pills to control her emotions. >> any mood stabilizer is a weight gainer. whether you feel better, then youre fat. so what you gain is a loss. its just -- its not a good situation. >> reporter: fisher spoke about being bipolar and often turned pain into humor. also writing, wishful drinking, and shockaholishockaholic. seemed no lack of material. after all, elizabeth taylor be...

>> i had to get away from him. it was screwing up my grades, it was screwing up every single thing. and i needed to just get out of there for a while. >> it has been said that she took a leave of absence. she didnt take a leave of absence. she dropped out. she didnt have a place to live. she didnt have a husband and she didnt have any money. >> i was literally looking for friends which is how i met the people that i shouldnt have met. >> one of glorias new best friends was a 60-year-old woman na...

She didnt have a place to live. she didnt have a husband, and she didnt have any money. >> i was literally looking for friends, which is how i met the people that i shouldnt have met. >> one of glorias new best friends was a 60-year-old woman named niva snyder. >> i really became very fond of niva. i probably was looking for a mother because she was that much older. what i didnt realize, because i didnt have a scrap of street sense, was that there was someone involved in the drug trade. >> neva ...

Soon turned ugly. >> i had to get away from him. it was screwing up my grades, it was screwing up every single thing. and i needed to just get out of there for a while. >> it has been said that she took a leave of absence. she didnt take a leave of absence. she dropped out. she didnt have a place to live. she didnt have a husband and she didnt have any money. >> i was literally looking for friends which is how i met the people that i shouldnt have met. >> one of glorias new best friends was a 60...

>> it has been said that she took a leave of absence. she didnt take a leave of absence. she dropped out. she didnt have a place to live shelf didnt have a husband and she didnt have any money. >> i was literally looking for friends which is how i met the people that i shouldnt have met. >> one of glorias new best friends was a 60-year-old woman named niva snyder. >> i really became very fond of her. i probably was looking for a mother. she was that much older. what i didnt realize, because he d...

>> neva snyder dealt methamphetamine. >> as someone who hadnt the faintest idea how to express her feels, i think self-medication was the answer. a pill here, a pill there, some powder. i dont know know, fine. >> that was the criminal element where that little area hung out. nevas house. flight attendant -- gloria got involved with the wrong crowd. >> the regulars at the house included gary and joane masse. the day after gloria was arrested, gary finally turn himself in. >> gary was known to use...

Violence with people who consume marijuana or cannabis as you do with problematic consumption of alcohol. i personally prefer to drink a glass of wine myself. but i encourage people that if that is their form of self medication, that it is beneficial. >> cecilia, angel and molly, ladies, keep us posted on what is probably going to be quite the successful business out there in colorado. >> thank you. >> or in washington. >> yes. thank you very much for having us today. >> thank you. chicago is ...