One of the central figures portrayed in the HBO miniseries, she emerged from the underworld of drugs and crime to become an addiction counselor and role model with a story of personal redemption.
Her son De’Andre L. McCullough began selling drugs in his teens, and his father, Gary McCullough, died of an overdose in 1996. Their struggles became the focus of the book by Simon and Burns as well as the HBO miniseries, which won three Emmy Awards, including the prize for outstanding miniseries.
“But then as time went on,” she told the San Jose Mercury News in 2000, “it showed me just how far I had come.”In the mid-1990s, Mrs. Andrews entered recovery. She credited her turnaround in large part to her future husband, Donnie Andrews, a former heroin user who years earlier had turned himself into Burns after killing a drug dealer and whose early life inspired the character of Omar Little in “The Wire.
“I was often in bad shape when I answered that phone, but no matter what I did or what I said, Donnie never criticized me,” Mrs. Andrews “No matter with all that was going on, we were always taken good care of,” her son De’Rodd Hearns, a firefighter,after his mother’s death. “We were different from some of the other kids in the neighborhood, who weren’t taken care of.”
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