Three decades ago, Gordon Lownds was living the entrepreneurial dream as a successful co-founder of the burgeoning Sleep Country business. At the same time, his personal life was a nightmare.

While the then 48-year-old was in the midst of expanding the mattress business from a handful of stores in Vancouver to over a dozen across Canada, he was battling a full-blown crack cocaine addiction .

Divorced at the time and with his family back in Toronto, Lownds got mixed up with Annabelle, a Seattle stripper with an out-of-control coke habit and libido that never quit. One day, during yet another huge fight about Annabelle getting clean, Annabelle asked Lownds to smoke crack in a bid to better understand the grip it had on her. Lownds did. And he liked it.

Six months later, he had move

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