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WATCH: Jordan Peterson Returns After Year-Long Disappearance, Near-Death Battle With Addiction

John Bickley
WATCH: Jordan Peterson Returns After Year-Long Disappearance, Near-Death Battle With Addiction
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A year ago, famed clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson, a popular proponent of free speech, abruptly disappeared from the public eye. Over the last few months, Peterson’s daughter, Mikhaila Peterson, has provided some troubling updates on the family’s struggles, including the revelation that her father was suffering from addiction.

On Monday, she released a new podcast episode in which she and her father, seen for the first time in months, discuss in at-times excruciating candidness why he “vanished:” his benzodiazepine dependency, which, the Petersons explain, nearly cost him his life.

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