Woman blows father’s inheritance on drug habit, booze and luxuries

A woman has revealed how she blew her father’s inheritance on drugs, booze and luxuries worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Brodie Bond fought her family for a slice of her late dad’s inheritance, eventually getting close to a quarter of a million dollars – but just nine months later, she had spent almost all of it – including $150,000 on ice.

She told Channel 9’s A Current Affair the rest went on alcohol, clothes and even a car – which she later managed to crash.

Bond was left out of her father’s will as they had become estranged, but when she contested it, she won the huge sum of money – giving her the chance to turn her life around. Instead, she spent it fuelling her dangerous lifestyle.

TONIGHT on #9ACA: Coming into inheritance can herald the start of a new life, and that's exactly what Brodie thought. But within a year, she had spent all of the money on clothes, cars and drugs. pic.twitter.com/dNR59AuVVN

— A Current Affair (@ACurrentAffair9) April 17, 2018

“Even though he hadn’t been in my life, he was still my dad, and the grief I was going through at the time, I should’ve benefited from that,” she said on the show.

After hearing she’d be gifted the money, Bond celebrated with a wild drug-fuelled party, as well as downing five shots of vodka in a row on camera. She added: “Why not? It’s not everyday you get that much money.”

At her worst, she could stay awake for up to a week after taking ice, and would even buy it for her friends, admitting: “If they got free drugs that was all cool. I was everyone’s best friend.”

She added: “It just ruined my life.”

Bond also took cameras inside her huge closet, with rails upon rails of clothes she’s bought with the money. 

“Supre, Jay Jays, Best and Less, Kmart, Rivers … every time I’d go into a shop I’d spend $500,” she explained. “I had to have one of everything. Like the shop people couldn’t believe it.”

Bond has managed to quit the drugs now, and hasn’t taken ice since January, saying: “I’m happy and I’m free of drugs.” She now says she’s looking for a job, but insists there needs to be more support for drug addicts.

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It comes after a group of grandmas in the same area of Melbourne opened up about their addiction to ice, with some admitting they’re even blowing their welfare and pensions on the drug habit.

Grandmother-of-four Maria admitted receiving up to $350 a week from the government, with part of the funds going towards drugs – which, she said, are “too easy” to come by in her hometown.

“Almost everyone here does drugs,” she added. “Marijuana, ice, morphine, who knows what else.”

What do you think of this choice? Is it wrong to spend a relative’s inheritance in this way?