JD Vance celebrates mother's major health milestone: ‘I am so proud of you’

After decades of struggling with addiction, JD Vance's parent has marked a large milestone.

On Monday, April 7, Vice President Vance led a solemnisation astatine the White House for Beverly Aikins, 64, who has achieved a decennary of sobriety.

"This twelvemonth marks my mom’s 10th twelvemonth of sobriety, and I'm grateful that we were capable to observe successful the White House with our family," Vance wrote successful a station connected X, sharing respective photos of the celebration.

"Mom, I americium truthful arrogant of you."

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Several friends and household members attended the solemnisation successful the Roosevelt Room.

Vance spoke astir his pridefulness successful his mother’s accomplishment and noted that she was the benignant of idiosyncratic radical could trust on, arsenic reported by the Washington Examiner.

"That’s what addiction took away. But that’s what betterment has fixed back, is that you are a idiosyncratic that others tin trust on," helium said, according to the aforesaid source.

"And I cognize you’re an inspiration to a batch of radical successful the recovery and addiction community. So, from the bottommost of my bosom and speaking for the full family, we emotion you."

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The vice president presented his parent with 1 of the president’s "challenge coins" to people the occasion.

Vance, who grew up successful Middletown, Ohio, and the Appalachian municipality of Jackson, Kentucky, spoke connected the statesmanlike run way astir the interaction of Aikins’ addiction connected his life, noting that his grandmother, "Mamaw," stepped successful to capable the gap.

JD Vance’s mother, Beverly Aikins, looks connected during an inauguration ceremonial successful the rotunda of the United States Capitol successful Jan. 2025. On Monday, April 7, Vice President Vance led a solemnisation of Aikins' decennary of sobriety. (Reuters)

"She raised maine successful portion due to the fact that my ain parent struggled with addiction for a large chunk of my aboriginal life," helium said during the vice statesmanlike statement successful October.

Aikins’ addiction began with a morganatic prescription for medication, but led to her stealing drugs from her patients, arsenic elaborate successful his bestselling book, "Hillbilly Elegy." 

Eventually, she became addicted to heroin.

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Throughout his childhood, Vance witnessed galore cycles of his mother’s cause abuse, volatile behaviour and failed stints successful rehab, helium wrote.

Even so, helium remained committed to helping her to his champion ability.

"I knew that a parent could emotion her lad contempt the grip of addiction."

"It was the eternal hope, the happening to which I couldn’t accidental no," Vance wrote successful his book. 

"That anticipation drove maine to voluntarily be those galore N.A. meetings, devour books connected addiction, and enactment successful Mom’s attraction to the fullest grade that I could."

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"I knew that a parent could emotion her lad contempt the grip of addiction," helium besides wrote. "I knew that my household loved me, adjacent erstwhile they struggled to instrumentality attraction of themselves."

Today, Aikins works astatine Seacrest Recovery Center, a substance maltreatment treatment halfway successful Cincinnati, Ohio, which lists her arsenic a caregiver connected its website.

"I knew that a parent could emotion her lad contempt the grip of addiction," Vance wrote successful his bestselling book. "I knew that my household loved me, adjacent erstwhile they struggled to instrumentality attraction of themselves." (Reuters)

Last October, she spoke with the Washington Examiner astir overcoming her struggles with substance abuse.

"I privation radical who are struggling with addiction oregon who person household members who are struggling with addiction to cognize that betterment is possible, and you get backmost truthful overmuch much from betterment than you ever deliberation you tin get back," she said.

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According to Vance's office, Aikins' proposal to those struggling with substance abuse issues is "to scope out, to effort to get help, and that betterment is hard, but it’s truthful worthy it."

The astir caller statistic from the United States National Survey connected Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) amusement that 48.5 cardinal (16.7%) of Americans 12 and older battled a substance-use upset successful the past year.

Fox News Digital's Diana Stancy contributed reporting.