"Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting"
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Then she pivots to something more tender and, culturally, more charged: the texture of alienation. "In the South, everybody was blonde" isn’t just a hair-color anecdote. It’s a shorthand for a regional ideal of girlhood, a narrow template of who gets to feel "normal". The line "I was a misfit" does the emotional heavy lifting; the blonde detail does the sociological work, quietly pointing to classed, gendered, appearance-driven conformity without turning it into a lecture.
The most revealing phrasing is the last beat: drinking as "my way of fitting". That twist exposes the grim irony of self-medication: the thing that isolates you later is first chosen as a social tool. Alcohol becomes a counterfeit passport into community, a way to mute the noise of not belonging. In a celebrity context, it also reads like a preemptive dismantling of glamor: no romantic tortured-artist myth, just a pragmatic coping mechanism that happened to be widely available, socially rewarded, and genetically primed to become dangerous.
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Davis, Kristin. (2026, January 15). Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/alcoholism-is-a-genetically-predisposed-disease-164108/
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Davis, Kristin. "Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/alcoholism-is-a-genetically-predisposed-disease-164108/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/alcoholism-is-a-genetically-predisposed-disease-164108/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.



