Pretty much every show on Bravo has a story line about cast members criticizing someone’s medical diagnosis, so I was sadly not at all surprised when the people on Shahs of Sunset came for Golnesa “GG” Gharachedaghi for partying even though she has been diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis.
On some level, I get why people would say that drinking and illness don’t go hand in hand – obviously – but it is a more complicated situation than that. GG opened up about why she turned to alcohol to help her cope as well as why she thinks her cast mates are criticizing her illness.
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GG spoke out in an interview with People to shed light on why she was drinking so much while filming the current Shahs of Sunset season.
GG said that she really started to party hard, err, harder when she realized that she had to undergo chemotherapy. Yes, that doesn’t make total sense on the surface, but this is how she justified it.
“I wasn’t mentally ready for it,” she admitted. “I turned to the bottle for pain and mental management. I was drinking a lot. And when I say ‘a lot,’ I mean I was literally waking up in the morning and downing a bottle of vodka … I just wanted to numb out.”
Obviously, excessive alcohol consumption is not the best way to deal with any situation, but it seems like GG has learned from this dark time. GG explained why she ended up checking herself into a treatment center, “It became obvious that it was a problem. I just wanted to be able to cope without using alcohol.”
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As expected, GG’s contradictory behavior is a major plot line on the show. I assumed that she was annoyed and appalled by this, but she is somehow seeing the positive in this not-so-flattering portrayal of herself. GG explained, “I should be grateful to these people. They gave more attention to RA! Now more people know what RA is, they’re Googling it. Like, wow, this disease that so many people have never heard of is now getting so much attention. That’s amazing.” That is definitely one good thing to come out of people questioning the symptoms of her illness.
With that said, GG is not at all surprised that Reza Farahan and the rest of the cast have made her medical problems a part of their story line this year. GG shared, “The issue was – and is an ongoing pattern season after season – whenever Reza goes against someone, he takes all his puppets along with him. So right now, because the mustache is against me, the others kind of wag their tails, like bitches.”
Honestly though. Now that Reza is married and he is getting along well with Adam, what else does he have to talk about aside from other people’s lives?
TELL US – DO YOU BELIEVE GG ABOUT THE SEVERITY OF HER RA DIAGNOSIS? DO YOU THINK SHE HAS BEEN MISUNDERSTOOD?
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