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Identity Lost in Nightlife

Name: Identity Lost in Nightlife
Uploaded: 2025-11-13T19:19:43.894233
Duration: 41 s
Channel: Mick Hunt
Description: A former NYC nightlife publicist describes how the industry pressured her to use drugs and drink to get ahead, and the identity crisis that followed when…

13 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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A former NYC nightlife publicist describes how the industry pressured her to use drugs and drink to get ahead, and the identity crisis that followed when she tried to get sober. She worked for major clubs including Crowbar.

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Well, I was a publicist for my whole 20s, and I was born to be a PR girl, but I was always fighting against myself because especially in New York City, it's like champagne and cocaine and models and bottles, and that's just what it is. It was a very easy job for me to lose myself in. I was doing a lot of nightclub and hospitality hotels, you know, PR for those types of places. I was out all the time. You felt like you had to be out doing drugs in the bathroom with the writers from Page Six, because that's, like, how you got further in your career. It was very hard to get sober in that environment. For a couple years, I was actually the publicist for Crowbar, which is the biggest nightclub in New York, Chicago, Miami, Liter in the belly of the beast. And I think this happens to a lot of addicts. You get your whole identity wrapped up in that without the, am I even me anymore? Because am I even a publicist? Am I even cool? Am I even part of New York nightlife?