I was an ‘out of control’ teen on the ‘Maury’ show 25 years ago — it helped me turn my life around
NY Post
Sex, cigarettes and sneaking out all colored Kristen White’s adolescence in the late 1990s.
Scolds from older sister Noelle didn’t inspire the then-high school sophomore to fix up her act. Pleas from her cancer-stricken mother, Toni, fell on deaf ears.
A wayward White — who behaved badly sans fear of retribution due to her mom’s failing health — even once threatened her family with a knife.
But a 1999 appearance on the “Maury” show finally scared the then-16-year-old Jersey girl straight.
“I got booed by the audience, drill sergeants screamed in my face, and I then was taken away to boot camp,” White, now 40, told The Post.
“It was a scary experience,” she continued. “But it gave me the wake-up call I needed.”
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