Overview
- Garth, 54, revealed new details Wednesday in a People cover story drawn from her memoir I Choose Me, which Park Row plans to release April 14.
- She writes that one night of drinking and pills led to a hospital visit to have her stomach pumped and then a rehab stay at Canyon Ranch, and she now says she is sober.
- Garth links the spiral to grief over her split from Peter Facinelli and describes a mental shift toward forgiveness, and the two now describe their co‑parenting as friendly.
- She also says Luke Perry was her first true love and recounts how his 2019 death left her shaken and quiet with grief.
- Another anecdote describes learning of husband Dave Abrams’ planned divorce through a TMZ post, followed by miscarriages, a year apart, and a later reconciliation.