19yr old modern woman is Homeless & struggling with addiction, SLEEPS in BUSHES by HOTEL

Añadido: 2026-05-07

[00:00:01]What's up guys? Welcome to my YouTube channel Myth 2.0 Reactions.

[00:00:08]Today we're going to be reacting to one of the YouTubers out of the West Coast.

[00:00:15]Um his YouTube channel is called Tales from the Streets and he interviews homeless people.

[00:00:22]And I was homeless for a while myself in my younger years, so I like to react to a lot of these videos. If you guys like reaction content and you're rocking with my my vibe, make sure you hit that subscribe button and thumbs up the video. But let's hop straight into the content and see what's happening with this um 19-year-old woman.

[00:00:44]All right, so I'm here with Natalie.

[00:00:47]Natalie, how old are you? I'm 19.

[00:00:49]Are you originally from Arizona? Yeah.

[00:00:52]What part of AZ? Here.

[00:00:55]From the back side?

[00:00:55]>> Phoenix.

[00:00:56]Well, kind of I've been moving a lot since I was little. I went Cali, Colorado, here, different parts, so So you've been all over? Yeah.

[00:01:07]What's your current situation right now?

[00:01:09]I'm homeless.

[00:01:12]How'd you end up homeless?

[00:01:14]Uh well, in January I caught a charge my first charge. I got felony. I ended up in jail. My mom bonded me out from there. She wanted me to go like to like sober living's house and I agreed I wanted to too, but I lasted a month sober. I was sad like depressed, so I didn't even get out of bed and I one day hung out with a friend and he ended up smoking blues. He's like, "Oh, I forgot you don't smoke." And he's like, "You want to hit it though?"

[00:01:39]I ended up hitting it and smoking like a bunch that night. And then it just kind of kept going. And then I got kicked out of that.

[00:01:45]I I I think that's the usual that we hear with a lot of these uh people who have addictions. Like it's like they want you to do better, but the but the circle that they choose to align themselves with end up putting them in the same position over and over again.

[00:02:03]Uh and let me tell you half of the more than half of the homeless population is on some type of drugs. But let's keep it moving.

[00:02:11]Like living thing and came out here.

[00:02:15]And yeah, I stayed here since.

[00:02:18]Natalie, how was your childhood growing up? Did you have both parents? Yeah. I have a step daddy, but I grew up with him since I was 8 months old.

[00:02:28]How was your life when you were a kid?

[00:02:30]Were Was it a good life? Yeah.

[00:02:32]>> Good childhood? Yeah, strict, but yeah.

[00:02:36]So how'd you end up out here in the streets like doing blues, man?

[00:02:41]How do you get involved?

[00:02:42]>> Well, CPS. CPS does take a lot like they do cause you a lot of pain and I don't think they realize it cause you a lot of pain and it got to me.

[00:02:52]And everything my mom trying to like hurry me up. I understand her, you know, but I can't.

[00:03:02]CPS, what what's up with that? Did they take your kid or When I got my charge in January and I haven't seen my kids since. And how old is your kid right now? She's four and a three-year-old.

[00:03:13]So you have two kids? Mhm.

[00:03:15]What at what ages did you have them? The first one I was like 15.

[00:03:20]And the other one like 16, 17.

[00:03:23]What what are they? Are they boys or girls? Both girls. Both girls?

[00:03:28]And where are they right now? Are they at a like a foster home? One of them is in the foster family and then the other one's with her dad. They have both different dads. Okay.

[00:03:40]A lot of these homeless chicks be having multiple children or have children period and she's none but 19.

[00:03:47]Started off real young having kids, you know, and then not only did she did you have a child at a very young age, which I'm not going to hold it against her. You know, the drugs and stuff like that and the circle, bro.

[00:04:01]Like we we don't understand how much a circle impacts our lives, our friends, the people we choose to interact with and what they do. They can rub off on you, you know. And then when you become my age, you you realize that the only person you hang around is yourself.

[00:04:21]But [snorts] let's keep it moving.

[00:04:23]And is that that's the reason why you're out here then? Yeah.

[00:04:27]But um They kind of took him away. Like we're suing. My mom got a lawyer right now. We're suing them. Yeah. They took them away like even my kids worker I had, she quit and disappeared. Yeah.

[00:04:38]Like so right now she I barely found out. My mom told me she like is in the process. She already sent the proof, so we're just kind of waiting.

[00:04:46]The only reason I would leave here is for my daughter.

[00:04:50]Yeah.

[00:04:51]Don't you think it's like it would be better for you to be clean and I know. I wouldn't be able to get clean cuz I have no news. I have to have some type of cuz there ain't even, you know, nothing yet.

[00:05:07]What do you do out here to survive?

[00:05:09]I panhandle and uh yeah.

[00:05:16]How much do you usually make a day?

[00:05:18]I don't know. I'm just making enough for my habit. It's not even like an amount.

[00:05:23]It's just whatever. Yeah.

[00:05:25]I don't even care. I don't even know.

[00:05:26]It's not even really money. I don't know. Do you try to panhandle [clears throat] to get a room or you just panhandling just to >> My I just my habit. I don't get enough for that. No. Yeah.

[00:05:35]And what I don't get enough for even a room. No?

[00:05:39]No, I don't do dates like the girls out here, so it's not even much. Yeah.

[00:05:43]I going to just be by myself.

[00:05:45]And why don't you do the dates?

[00:05:49]Cuz my family they raised me right to that and they just we don't I don't know. We don't believe I don't know. It is wrong. I don't know. I won't do it.

[00:05:55]I've had a lot of trauma in the past with guys as well, so I can't.

[00:05:59]Like what what kind of traumas have you had? Uh rape, all that.

[00:06:04]Rape?

[00:06:05]Yeah. Was that from uh like your childhood or Uh started like on a 13 year till now. Still guys want to be pervs. Like the ones that drive around and follow me. Yeah.

[00:06:17]Do you get a lot of those every day?

[00:06:19]Yeah. Yeah? What do you do to deal with those kind of people? No, so well some of them they just follow me all night.

[00:06:25]I'm never by myself like that and if I am, I'll just like ask anyone who's walking by any guy. I'll be like, "Hey, can I just walk with you?" Yeah. And once I go, I kind of just stay behind the bushes over here in front of a hotel and I going to stay there sometimes. Do you carry around any mace, any any kind of protection? I don't have any. No? No.

[00:06:45]I know I've always That was a good question, you know. Like first of all, she panhandles for uh an addiction, you know, when there's resources in every state. I've been homeless in multiple states for a while and I know for a fact every state had a place you could get mail, you could get showers. Um they help you get your vouchers for your birth certificate, your IED, your social security card and it's easier for you for homeless people to go get a job when they got that set up for it where these places help them um um get that. And then he asked her about protection like did this woman is out here sleeping on the streets at 19.

[00:07:27]You know, sleeping in bushes at a um at a hotel, which is uh you know, dangerous, you know. And mace uh little thing of mace is probably like 10 bucks at Walmart.

[00:07:40]Think I got I I got some mace in here somewhere myself, you know, and I'm not even homeless no more. But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:07:49]It gets dangerous to be a homeless, you know, for men and women.

[00:07:54]But let's keep it moving. It's they saving. I've been out here 1 year and nothing, you know. Yeah.

[00:07:59]At the first times I was out here, yeah, but like after I've learned, you know.

[00:08:03]But you know that things could turn in a blink of an eye, right? Yeah.

[00:08:08]Um have you ever thought about like getting yourself any kind of protection like that? Yeah.

[00:08:13]>> mace spray? I'm trying to right now.

[00:08:16]Yeah.

[00:08:17]Um do you still keep in contact with your with your parents? Yeah, me and my mom barely started talking again.

[00:08:24]Cuz I went to rehab like I got out September 16th. I went up to Mexico and as soon as we hit here, I came back here. She told me not to call her for help, nothing cuz, you know, I I get it. She was obviously mad, you know.

[00:08:38]She paid for that.

[00:08:39]But she started talking to me again cuz she's worried. She worries.

[00:08:43]Was she was trying to give you that tough love?

[00:08:46]No, it's just she's mad, you know, she paid for that rehab over there for me to just come straight the first day we arrived. And you went straight to the streets back again. Yeah. Yeah? How was the experience out there in the rehab out there in Mexico? They're really strict and they show you like like I wanted to stay the full 6 months, but I only stayed two. It cost a lot of money and if I would have stayed out there, I'd be sober. Yeah.

[00:09:10]What part of Mexico? No, I'm in Culiacan.

[00:09:12]Culiacan. Culiacan?

[00:09:14]In Sinaloa? Mhm. You were far. Mhm.

[00:09:17]Yeah. How'd you manage to get all the way back out here?

[00:09:20]I bought and I bought some, so I smoked them on the way there. I would stop them at the rest stops and once we hit the border, last one from there, I heard it for the whole day. I barely made it. I was I was done. Yeah.

[00:09:35]But who brought you back? My mom. She drove me there and back. Okay.

[00:09:41]Man, if I was your mom, I would have told you, "Hell no, you're staying out there." I thought she would have. Yeah.

[00:09:48]Um I talked to >> It's just she wanted me to come back real quick and have the kids and the first day we arrived, she already said, "Tomorrow we do this, this." It was too fast for me. Stressful.

[00:09:58]I talked to some other girl a couple of months ago and she said that she went to a rehab in like Sonora.

[00:10:04]And she was actually tell telling me that they actually tied people down.

[00:10:09]Yeah, they tied me down. They do it by force.

[00:10:11]>> Yeah, they tied me by force.

[00:10:12]>> that? Yeah, I tied myself like three times and they tied me back three times.

[00:10:16]And finally they stopped because I kept untying myself. How many And it's crazy how a lot of these uh uh drugs that the people do they have a a real strong impact, you know, on people where they can't shake it on their own, you know, because it's not just what they're doing, it's the circle that they're around, you know, and then their brain is not like this woman is only 19. It's not even developed yet. But let's keep it moving. How many people did it take to hold you down?

[00:10:47]>> like six, seven. Yeah? Yeah. That is crazy, man. They all tried each one like, "Oh, I got this. No, I know how to tie." And each one and each one got frustrated. Yeah? [laughter] They finally just let me in a like detox room and let me untied and just let me in. What do you go into like a padded room or something like that by yourself?

[00:11:05]Yeah, like a detox room, yeah. Just one bed advice over there.

[00:11:08]That is crazy, man. What do you think if they were to implement something like that in the US here in the United States, you think that would work for addicts? A lot of people wouldn't be in rehab, the ones who are.

[00:11:22]Cuz your body hurts as it is for the the use. We have we can't stop moving. Yeah?

[00:11:27]We'd probably go crazy.

[00:11:29]Yeah.

[00:11:30]What do you think that we could do out here so we could um get rid of all the blue epidemic that we're having right now? One thing people don't is they need understanding. That's the major thing.

[00:11:42]They don't understand cuz they don't do them and they don't go through the stuff we go through. They need to understand.

[00:11:47]>> Go So, they need to understand. That's like something people don't understand, yeah.

[00:11:53]Understanding is a big major part and people don't. They just judge.

[00:11:58]Okay. And judging makes us want to distance ourselves, you know? It's not going to make us get help.

[00:12:04]So, you close yourself off? Yeah.

[00:12:07]Okay.

[00:12:08]Why do you think people get into initially get into these types of substances? Some for fun, some cuz of friends, some because of problems, some to cover pain.

[00:12:23]What what's one of the worst experiences that you've had being out here homeless?

[00:12:28]Getting beat by guys, getting beat by them. Getting beat up? Yeah.

[00:12:32]You have to go through that a lot out here? Yeah, at first out here because I am the only girl out here that don't do dates. I'm the only one.

[00:12:39]And well, they get mad and I'm the only one that will say something like they want to talk crap to us and tell us stuff.

[00:12:47]Girls stay quiet, but I don't. I talk back to them, but I don't talk I just tell them the truth, you know?

[00:12:52]And they don't like hearing the truth from a girl.

[00:12:55]Yeah.

[00:12:56]You think it's harder for a girl to be homeless out here?

[00:12:59]Way more. You need any guy would tell you out here is way more. Yeah? Just cuz it's a lot of sex trafficking guys, perps, you know? Yeah.

[00:13:07]Guys don't go through that.

[00:13:09]You know, someone was actually telling me that there's been a couple of kidnaps around here. Yeah. They've tried to kidnap me, but it's just I notice everything. I do watch my back. I don't when I get high, I don't be sleeping. I stay alert. And if I feel like I'm tired, I get up and walk behind somewhere hiding.

[00:13:27]And I hide.

[00:13:29]So, if we have some younger viewers that are watching this interview and they're thinking about trying uh blues or G or any other substances, what kind of advice would you give them?

[00:13:43]Don't try them because I mean, any pain you're going through, anything you're in is is going to have fun. It is fun at first, but slowly you drain your energy, you get depressed, and everything, problems, anything, you use that to cover it cuz it helps you cover it. You get numb.

[00:14:01]Like I forget I have daughters at times and I do that on purpose. I want to sometimes.

[00:14:06]Cuz you don't want to think about anything. So, like I suggest just get help because once you're out here, you're out here. You don't really leave. People much don't leave.

[00:14:16]I've been to a million rehabs. They don't help. Once you're here, you're here.

[00:14:21]How long do you think you're going to be out here doing this?

[00:14:24]I hope not long. I do want to quit, but it's not easy. It's really not.

[00:14:28]I hope if I can use that my daughters, I'd be able I would only quit for them, only. Not for my mom, not for my boy, nothing. Just them.

[00:14:38]All right, Natalie. Well, thank you for this interview. I really do appreciate it. Are you okay with me This crazy.

[00:14:45]You know, a lot of a lot of homeless people like it's like their mind is like they they live in a box, you know? And most people society live in a box already. So, you can just imagine when you got somebody who lives in a box and they're in their mindset and then they go homeless and they can't think outside the box of how to get out of that situation, you end up in a position like this lady, you know, end up homeless, sleeping in bushes, you know, and stuff like that and thinking it's normal. But guys, let me know what you guys think on the video and I'mma holler at you guys on the next one. Over and out.