Snapshot · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Dustin Poirier was arrested for public intoxication at Atlanta airport on Father's Day after drinking champagne and getting into an altercation with desk agents, attributing it to depression linked to his homeless father.
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For the first time, Poirier walks through the full sequence of the incident that derailed a three-leg work trip. He drank two champagnes on the flight from Lafayette, landed in Atlanta with a layover, ordered more at a bar, took shots with strangers, then got into a confrontation with desk agents that led to police being called. [1] — Dustin Poirier "On Father's Day, Poirier started feeling a wave of depression while traveling to work, drank champagne on the flight and more at an airport…" 07:16 He never boarded the connecting flight. The deeper cause, he says, was depression that descended on him that Father's Day as he thought about his father — currently homeless despite Poirier's attempts to help him. He notes the incident could have been far worse and wants to personally thank the officer who handled it professionally.
On Father's Day, Poirier started feeling a wave of depression while traveling to work, drank champagne on the flight and more at an airport bar in Atlanta, got into an argument with desk agents, and was arrested for public intoxication before even boarding his connecting flight. The three-leg work trip — South Florida, LA, Vegas — was derailed at the first stop.
Poirier's earliest memories are of his parents fighting physically. His father was a lifelong alcoholic. By 12 or 13 he was drinking; at 14, he was in juvenile detention for fighting, truancy, and a failed drug test while on probation. Therapy is now helping him connect those childhood experiences to the emotional struggles he carries as an adult.
Poirier began drinking at 12 or 13 years old, growing up in an environment where his father was a lifelong alcoholic.
Poirier's father, 74–75 years old, is currently homeless — sleeping in a truck his sister provided — after a lifetime of alcoholism that destroyed marriages, friendships, and relationships with his own children. Poirier tried to have him taken into protective custody but the process failed; the emotional weight boiled over on Father's Day.
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