Ted Williams, the homeless Ohio man with the Golden Voice who was discovered after a local reporter aired a video of him is back. He’s not the man he was prior to the video that won him media attention, job offers and a home, but getting to where he is now hasn't been easy.
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A year out, a dapper Williams appeared on the "Today" show this morning to talk about beating drug addiction – he’s been sober one year, battling alcohol abuse – Williams spent two stints in rehab, and moving forward - he's written a book. Williams told host Matt Lauer staying clean continues to be a struggle, but he’s making it, “One day at a time.”
“I would ask God, 'Please let my mother and myself stay alive one more year… Let a life changing turnaround happen in my life so that my mother would not close her eyes saying I did a bad job raising this child.'”
Not long after his discovery last year, Williams and his mother were reunited after about 20 years of estrangement.
While I’m sure Williams’s mom sees him more often than we have, his second appearance on the morning show, cleaned up and transforming, was a testament to his prayer and no doubt a fitting Mother's Day gift.
On a less warm and fuzzy note, but nevertheless motherlyHalle Berry has explained her confrontation with paparazzi last week to “Extra’s” host Mario Lopez.
Last week, Extra TV reports, Berry lost control with photographers staged outside of her daughter Nahla’s preschool, screaming, “I’m doing something honorable -- I’m not harassing people!”
According to the program, Berry told Mario, “I hate that I lost my cool, but you know, I'm human. That happens and when it comes to my daughter, I'm ferocious!”
Fair enough.
After talking about how wrong it is that there aren’t any laws protecting children at school..(Um?) Berry went on to say, “You know, I think I'm going (to) call Obama and say look, can you help us? I know this seems like a little issue right now. But it’s a big issue in our lives and our lives at the school and our children being protected. I think it’s really, really important.”
Be back soon.
