By Shay SpenceOriginal Source: people.comAndrew Zimmern has discussed his struggle with with drug addiction and alcoholism in the past, and now he’s opening up about what led him down his path of self-destruction.In an interview with PEOPLE Now on Wednesday morning, the Bizarre Foods host recalls a pivotal moment during his adolescence. “When I was 13, I came back from summer camp—summer of ’74—and my mother had had an accident during surgery and was in an oxygen tent in a coma. It was so traumatic. My parents had been divorced for six or seven years at that point, and it was sort of the seminal event of my life,” he says. “The only other ones that come close were sobering up and then starting a family. That [first] one being the biggest because it set me on a path to crash and burn in a very, very, very even more deeply traumatic way.”His mother ultimately recovered and was in and out of mental hospitals before passing away in 2011, according to CNN. But Zimmern was already on a dangerous path, turning to drugs and alcohol throughout his teens and early 20s. “I was functional—I graduated high school; I was functional—I graduated college,” he says, noting that he was...click here to continue reading