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A mum who hit "rock bottom" and became addicted to drugs after her husband was tragically killed says finding new love helped turned her life around. Natalee King, 33, says she was "high almost 24/7" following the death of her soldier partner John King in 2013. She became depressed and addicted to crystal meth and Xanax - and even spent time in prison for drug-driving. But, five years after going sober, Natalee is a woman transformed. The air force vehicle operator says meeting Justin White, 31, helped her onto the straight and narrow - and they now have a beautiful family. Natalee, from Florida, said: "Not only did he help me get clean, but he allows me to grieve my late husband's death in any way I want. "He lets me talk about him all the time. "Now I spend my days raising my youngest son, and I do a lot of meditating, breathing treatments and therapy." John, a soldier, was killed in a training accident ten years ago. The couple met on an airbase in Japan in 2011 and, later that year, Natalee became pregnant. John James King was then born in 2012 and the family moved to Maryland but, just eight months later, that fateful knock on the door came. Natalee's husband had been crushed by a truck - leaving her widowed. She said: "I was told he was OK at first, but two hours went by and then they all showed up in blue uniform, and told me he was dead. "It was gut-wrenching. I remember I was sitting on the couch and when I stood up, my knees gave out. I fell to the floor and started vomiting like I had the flu. "I remember looking at my son and it was unbearable - I didn't know how I would be able to raise him alone." John's death sent Natalee into a spiral - and it was then that she became addicted to prescription Xanax. She said: "It made me forget what I was feeling. Every day was so painful - every morning I'd wake up and hate my life. I wished I wouldn't have to keep waking up." But, just months later, doctors took the drugs away - so Natalee turned to buying it from street dealers on street corners. It was then that she started taking crystal meth, and she says she herself "high almost 24/7". And after having her license revoked for driving under the influence, she was jailed for getting behind the wheel illegally. Natalee says she was then in and out of prison - and had to sign over custody of her young son over to her mum. She said: "My mum talked me into handing over custody because she didn't think I would make it out alive. "She'd already lost my …
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