Life experience of Hanala Stadner Surviving Addiction and Holocaust By Christopher Cussat Since leaving Montreal and moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in television over twenty years ago, S. Hanala Stadner has seen and (sometimes unfortunately) done it all. Her positive and impressive life experiences include a successful cable television show which ran for a decade, hobnobbing with the likes of Marlon Brando, getting physically and mentally fit through exercise, finding a career as an aerobics and spin instructor, reconnecting to and coming to peace with her mother, and now, being recognized as an accomplished, comedic and autobiographical author.
However, there cannot be so many positives without some negatives, and Stadner has had her share. In addition to a nearly life-long, estranged relationship with her mother and father, she became an alcoholic at a very early age, a full-blown drug addict, a depressive, a victim of sexual assaults and generally, a lost soul living in L.A.
Stadner uses sharp humor and her gift of wit to tell her own story in the new book, My Parents Went Through the Holocaust and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt. The book explores how experiencing the Holocaust first-hand affected her parents (especially her mother) and how their reaction to that experience negatively affected Stadner as a child and lit the fuse that eventually exploded into her addiction problems. "I created a Holocaust of my own using drugs," Stadner noted, "The book is about how my parents survived Hitler and how I survived them, drugs and alcohol."
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