Hunter Biden reveals the full extent of his drug and alcohol use: President’s addict son reveals he has been to rehab SIX times in the last 20 years during dramatic court appearance

• Hunter Biden divulged he’s been to rehab ‘close to six’ times 
• He was asked about his drug and alcohol use in federal court in Wilmington 
• Hunter’s plea deal fell apart during the Wednesday hearing  

Hunter Biden revealed Wednesday that he’d been in rehab six times in the last 20 years during his dramatic appearance in Wilmington court. 

The 53-year-old recovering crack addict was expected to get out of dodge with a plea deal, where he would plead guilty to not paying income tax and admit to felony gun possession. 

The deal was expected to keep him out of jail – but it fell apart in real-time as Department of Justice prosecutors and Hunter’s legal team disagreed on whether it meant that Hunter could be prosecuted for additional crimes related to his foreign business deals. 

The first son detailed his drug and alcohol use during his time in court because he was being prosecuted for lying on a form to obtain a firearm. 

‘I’ve attended treatment facilities for addiction your honor,’ Hunter said, noting that he started seeking treatment beginning in 2003. ‘I’ve been to, I believe, close to six in-patient over the course of 20 years.’ 

Hunter Biden departs federal court in Wilmington, Delaware on Wednesday. The first son detailed his drug and alcohol use for the judge as they discussed a gun crime he was charged with 

Hunter Biden’s laptop contained a number of images of him using drugs. He also detailed his crack and alcohol addiction in his 2021 memoir, Beautiful Things 

He added that he’s also been to out-patient facilities. 

‘For addiction to alcohol, primarily, originally, your honor,’ he added. ‘Drugs also, yeah.’ 

Hunter said he was last treated for addiction in an in-patient facility in 2018 and said he’s been sober since 2019. 

He was warned by the judge that he may be subjected to random drug testing under the conditions of his release. 

Last month, Hunter was charged with possession of a firearm by an individual who is a known drug user, which is a felony. 

He filled out the form to apply for a firearm in 2018. 

Hunter has publicly admitted to abusing drugs and alcohol, writing it all down on paper in his 2021 memoir, Beautiful Things. 

Hunter Biden smokes a cigarette in bed in an image that was saved on the infamous ‘laptop from hell’ 

The laptop contained a number of images of the first son with drug paraphernalia

The so-called ‘laptop from hell’ also includes a number of photographs of Hunter with alcohol and drug paraphernalia. 

‘When I was not quite a year sober, as I worked on the early parts of this book, crack remained the first thing I thought about every morning when I woke up,’ he wrote in Beautiful Things.  

In the book, he recounted a number of trips to rehab – and times he fled. 

He recounted his first sip of champagne at age 8 – at a reelection night party in Delaware – and drinking beers with his friends as young as 14. 

‘Getting blasted and sick as a dog didn’t scare me or turn me off one bit,’ he said. ‘Instead, I thought it was kind of cool.’

He was busted for cocaine possession at age 18, but it was taken off his record by doing a pretrial intervention and serving six months probation. 

‘It scared me straight – for a while,’ Hunter wrote. ‘I owned up to it and didn’t do coke again that summer or, really, more than a couple of times in college.’ 

Hunter was in his early 30s for his first stint in rehab. 

He wrote that he had started drinking more heavily after he and Kathleen Biden’s third child, Maisy, had been born. 

‘I tried to quit drinking when we returned to Washington, in 2003. I’d stop for 30 days, then binge for three. I couldn’t get control of it,’ he recalled. 

He admitted himself into the Crossroads Center in Antigua later that year. 

When he finished in-patient treatment there, Beau picked him up and then took Hunter to his first AA meeting, in Dupont Circle, in Washington, D.C. 

Hunter said he started drinking again in November 2010 – after his father became vice president. 

He returned to Crossroads for treatment. 

In another part of the book he referenced going to a rehab center in 2014 in Tijuana, Mexico. 

In 2015, after the death of Beau Biden – and then after Hunter accompanied his father to Charleston in the aftermath of the Mother Emanuel AME Church shooting – the first son started drinking again. 

‘Virtually everything I did afterward, for the next four years, resulted in me stumbling, then sliding, then racing downhill,’ he said.  

He detailed being in an outpatient facility for a month at the University of Pennsylvania, followed by an inpatient program ‘on a rural mountaintop about seventy miles west of Philly.’ 

Hunter then moved into the Logan Circle neighborhood in D.C. and went to therapy three days a week and worked with a sober coach, he wrote. 

He started drinking again around Christmas 2015 – going on a full-blown bender. 

He was back in rehab the next year, at the Esalen Institute retreat center in Big Sur, California. 

Four months after he left Esalen, around Memorial Day 2016, he was a on a Burisma-related business trip and was offered cocaine.

‘I took it,’ he said. 

Hunter had been receiving treatment at an outpatient rehab clinic in D.C. at the time. 

A short time later, he was looking for crack cocaine at D.C.’s Frankin Park, just a few blocks away from the White House. His dealer later moved in with him.   

In 2016, Hunter tried Grace Grove Lifestyle Center in Arizona – smoking crack all the way there. 

He only stayed for a week, he wrote in his book. 

In 2018, after ending a relationship with Beau’s widow, Hallie Biden, Hunter was using his ‘superpower – finding crack anytime, anywhere’ while residing in Los Angeles. 

Hunter briefly checked into a rehab center in Brentwood. 

In the fall of 2018, Hunter moved back east ‘with the hope of getting clean through a new therapy and reconciling with Hallie.’

‘Neither happened,’ he wrote. 

Hunter drove to Newsburyport, Massachusetts to seek help at a therapy center where ketamine infusions are given. 

He wrote that he made two trips there. 

‘The therapy’s results were disastrous. I was in no way ready to process the feelings it unloosed or prompted by reliving past physical and emotional trauma,’ Hunter detailed, explaining he went back to smoking crack.  

He recalled an intervention that finally took place in 2019, the same year President Joe Biden launched what would be a successful presidential bid. 

At a family dinner, Hunter was confronted by his father, first lady Jill Biden, his three daughters and two counselors from a Pennsylvania rehab center where he’d previously been a patient.  

He recalled swearing at his father and then running from the house, but was chased down by Joe Biden who ‘grabbed me, swung me around, and hugged me.’

‘He held me tight in the dark and cried for the longest time,’ Hunter recalled.

By the end of the night, Hunter agreed to check into a rehab facility in Maryland. 

He was driven there by Hallie. 

After she dropped him off, Hunter called an Uber, told the staff he’d return in the morning, and then checked into a hotel near the Baltimore Washington International Airport. 

‘For the next two days, while everybody who’d been at my parents’ house thought I was safe and sound at the center, I sat in my room and smoked the crack I’d tucked away in my traveling bag,’ he wrote. ‘I then boarded a plane for California and ran and ran and ran. Until I met Melissa,’ he said, referencing Melissa Cohen, now his wife. 

Hunter said Wednesday that he’s been sober since June 2019 – having a drink or two after he and Melissa Cohen wed in May 2019, but never since. 

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