Abbott grew up in Sunnyvale and later worked strip clubs in Los Angeles before moving back to the Bay Area in 2004. She had lived with Walker most of that time.
Abbott had a drinking problem and took anti-depressants, but she never struggled with hard drugs, he said. She wouldn’t drink daily; when she drank, he said, she drank hard. She had some run-ins with police over the years, all related to alcohol, Walker said, including one DUI while she sat in her parked car with the heat and music blaring. She managed somehow to keep her thick sense of humor.
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Walker said that Abbott probably worked as an exotic dancer just a handful of times in the past year and preferred waiting nightclub tables. As a Catholic, she tried to hide the stripper work from family and friends.
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