After months of speculation, makeup artist and social media influencer Mikayla Nogueria has confirmed her husband Cody Hawken is in rehab to treat ongoing substance abuse issues.
“My husband Cody is in rehab and I’m ready to talk about it,” Nogueria said in a video shared via TikTok on Friday, April 4. “Cody’s story is not mine to share, but he has given me his blessing to talk about it today.”
While applying makeup, Nogueria went on to explain that “relapsing is a pattern in the recovery process – not a failure,” before detailing the events that occurred regarding her husband and their current living situation.
“January 2024, my husband relapsed on drugs. On April 2024, my husband relapsed on alcohol. I’m not new to addiction or addicts, but what I am new to is marrying one. And putting on a brave face the entire year of 2024 was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life,” the influencer explained, often through tears.
The 26-year-old went on to explain that there’s a “reason addiction is known as a family disease.”
“It doesn’t just impact the individual — it impacts everyone around them,” she said, adding that during the previous year she “faced some of the scariest nights of my life.”
“I’m talking calling the police because I’m scared my husband is going to die,” she continued. “To anyone who has had a spouse or a family member who has struggled with addiction, you know what I mean when I say I didn’t know who that person was anymore. I felt like I had lost my husband.”
The Massachusetts influencer went on to say that “addition is really” hard regardless of whether or not it happens to “you” or the “people around you.”
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“I watched his addiction worsen and it became so hard in my home and I had to make the really difficult decision to remove Cody from our home,” she revealed. “He ended up getting his own apartment and I said, ‘You need to figure it out,’ because as much as I can try to get Cody to want to be sober he has to want to be sober. The addict is the one who has to get sober.”
She continued, “No longer could I enable it, and I couldn’t be around it.”
The social media star, who has been married to her husband since July 2023, told viewers that she knew her husband was an addict long before they said “I do.”
“When I met him he was living in sober living and he had just gotten out of rehab,” she explained. “He moved from Nevada to [Massachusetts] to go to treatment here and the only reason he stayed was because of me. Understand sobriety, like recovery, is not linear. Addiction is a disease and it’s very complex and unless you, yourself, or someone very close to you has struggled with addiction — it’s hard to understand.”
If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health and/or substance use, you are not alone. Seek immediate intervention — call 911 for medical attention; 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline; or 1-800-662-HELP for the SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) National Helpline. Carrying naloxone (Narcan) can help reverse an opioid overdose.
