To say that Golnesa “GG” Gharachedaghi has been through a lot would be putting it mildly. Honestly, she has enough material for her own reality show.

Not only does GG have a lot going on with her feud with Shahs of Sunset co-star Reza Farahan and her Rheumatoid Arthritis diagnosis, but she is also revisiting some painful moments from the past and sharing a lot.

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What is with all the Bravo shows and accusations about people faking illnesses? It is starting to get old and definitely is not shocking anymore. We all know about the Shahs of Sunset cast questioning GG’s illness, but there is so much more to her life story than this show. GG talked about her life struggles in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.

GG explained that her struggle with RA is especially difficult because of her troubles with addiction. “I was an addict,” she admitted. “I have 11 years drug free. I started using drugs when I was 11 and a half, and it kind of progressed very, very fast and I was a full blown addict [before I knew it].” Eleven is such a young age to get into such a scary situation. GG explained that she had issues with cocaine and marijuana.

Last year, GG slipped up when she started hitting the bottle hard. “When the alcohol abuse picked up last year, I knew this pattern and I knew what was happening,” she said. “I recognized it. I said, ‘Okay, well if I don’t stop it now, this could eventually lead to a few lines of coke, it could lead into a lot of other dangerous things.'”

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Things got very dark for GG. She admitted that she contemplated suicide: “I was literally sitting on the ground in my living room, one empty bottle of Titos vodka here, a bottle of wine here, and some gin. And on the other side, I had knives. It just came down to – you fight or flight in this moment. ‘What do I do in this moment?’ And I downed the rest of that wine and picked up the phone. I called my friend and said, ‘I need you now.'”

Things got even worse for GG since she was diagnosed with a second autoimmune disease three and a half months ago. GG explained just how scary this is to her and what she’s thinking: “Thinking that I can pass this onto my kids, or even if I have kids I can’t hold on to them for too long…I just keep envisioning if my child is just crying and I literally have no strength to hold my child for any longer – it is just something that’s been really weighing on me for the last couple years. At this age I should be starting a family. I’m even debating if I should anymore.”

Wow. GG‘s really gone through a lot. It definitely makes you look at her Shahs of Sunset conflicts from a different perspective.

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