Nothing could have prepared a Washington woman for her boyfriend’s reaction to her pregnancy news.

Julia Barker, 33, (@julseybee_) shared a photo of her boyfriend Ryan Riley, 35, during his final stint in jail in a reel on Instagram. The text overlay read: "I’m pregnant. You think you can get clean?" And that’s exactly what Ryan did.

Before their daughter was born, Julia told Newsweek that she and Ryan were in the midst of drug addiction , drifting from motels, abandoned houses and borrowed cars in the Seattle area.

"We both come from good, hard-working families, but addiction and alcoholism does run in both of our genes, and for whatever reason, we ended up with this disease," Julia said. "In each of our experiences, we began using substances very young , and we didn't meet u

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