The Vivienne hid ketamine struggle ‘to protect family’

The sister of James Lee Williams, better known as The Vivienne, says her family only learned of the drag performer’s battle with ketamine addiction after watching Drag Race UK.
In an interview with BBC Newsnight, Chanel Williams, 35, says James had kept the struggle – including being hospitalised because of the drug – a secret from the family “to protect them”.
The 32-year-old died in January, with the family later announcing the cause of death as a cardiac arrest caused by taking ketamine.
Chanel says her brother had “a really long period of sobriety” before relapsing, something she says the family only discovered after James’s death.
“A big thing for me now is, had I asked the questions or just looked for the signs, would the outcome be different?” she says.

Source: BBC | Language: English