Broken but Brave: More Than One Way to Save a Life. Cree Knighton on Foster Care, Sacrifice, Recovery, and the Love That Waited Thirty Years

Thirty-three years ago, Dee Dee Vicino was assigned as a guardian ad litem to a thirteen-year-old girl in the Florida foster system. Necrecha Knighton, known to everyone who loves her as Cree, was the first child Dee Dee ever represented. They lost touch for three decades. In 2022, Cree found her again.This is the most personal episode of More Than One Way to date, and Dee Dee is part of the story.Cree talks about growing up in foster care, the wrenching choice she made at seventeen to give her infant son a safe home, the generational addiction she has fought and is now in recovery from, forgiving her mother, raising six children, and reuniting with Tim, the boy she fell for at thirteen, after thirty years apart.A note for listeners: this conversation includes honest discussion of addiction, recovery, and a moment of suicidal crisis. If you are struggling, you can call or text 988 in the US to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.