Wednesday 28 September 2022 05:41 AM Grace Tame finally opens up on THAT bong photo in new memoir trends now
Grace Tame has insisted she does not 'own a two-foot bong' in her new memoir, after previously being pictured sitting on a sofa with one in an old photo.
In a 2014 Instagram picture, a 19-year-old Ms Tame can be seen sitting on a lounge with a friend, smiling with her eyes closed as she plays on her phone.
The 2021 Australian of the Year appears to be holding a bong - a water pipe used for smoking cannabis - upright with her left foot.
Ms Tame swiftly deleted the photo, now 27, earlier this year and she has now addressed the topic in her deeply personal memoir, titled The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner: A Memoir, which was released on Tuesday.
'No, I don't own a two-foot bong,' she wrote. And I know if I go sky high, it goes sky high with me too. When I was younger, the comedown came later. Now it starts before I even hit the top. I have learned my lesson.'
In the Instagram photo from 2014, the 2021 Australian of the Year Grace Tame appears to be holding a bong upright with her left foot
Grace Tame addressed the photo and her relationship with drugs in her deeply personal new memoir
'I've written at length about drugs, and their dangers,' she added, as she opened up on her relationship with drugs. 'I've learned to sit with my trauma 'I've used and abused them. I'm not here to condone or shame their use.
'It's not as simple as saying "drugs are bad". Yes, they have harmful effects. I'm not here to argue with that. But there are many people,
