What Was Captain Sandy in Jail For? Details on Her Arrests

What was 'Below Deck Med's Captain Sandy in jail for? She opened as much as Travis about her previous struggles with drinking and the difficulty it caused.

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But we've additionally been seeing a slower burn, the alcoholism of deckhand Travis Michalzik, which has affected the Sirocco staff on their outings, and which Captain Sandy just lately called into question, announcing that her team member's breath reeked of booze.

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What was Captain Sandy in jail for? She opened about her addiction and arrests.

It wasn't the primary time that Captain Sandy discussed being arrested at 23, however this time she dove just a little deeper into how she were given into hassle when she was more youthful. 

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"She said she could smell it on me at work, which was probably from the day before or whatever," Travis defined in the Below Deck after-show. "But she explained to me her past experience with it and everything because she did have a lot of detrimental parts of her life which were purely driven by alcoholism."

We watch Travis and the Captain percentage an emotional moment in the wheelhouse where Sandy confides in her deckhand. "Sometimes I wish I could just have a glass of wine, but I can't stop at just one. I'd have the whole bottle and then another and then another. It got me nowhere, or sometimes, incarcerated," she shared.

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Her arrests had been DUI comparable, which she explained in her own after-show phase. "I grew up in a state where at 17 years old, you could drink. And we had drive-thru daiquiri bars. You could drive through, order your daiquiri, and drive away. Who does that? ... Like, I kept getting arrested drinking and driving," Captain Sandy explained. 

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As she defined in previous seasons, this took place in her early twenties. But it was thanks to any individual having a dialog with her just like the one that she had with Travis that led her to take a step back and query her habits.

"One day, I woke up and said, 'I want off the merry-go-round,' and I reached out for help," Captain Sandy says. Flash to the current, and the Below Deck Med head honcho has been sober for the previous 29 years. And because she prides herself on leading by example, she's additionally played an intricate phase in serving to others who've come alongside her trail fight their very own struggles with addiction.

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"In my career, I've helped many people who have drinking problems. I'm one of those people," she confesses. With regard to Travis, she says the dialog was "an organic, beautiful" one. "I just wanted him to know that I was here and I could help him get help if he wanted it," she said.

The Sirocco group is so lucky to have such an understanding leader. Something tells us that if Captain Mark or Lee had been on board, Travis' intervention would possibly were a tad much less compassionate.

New episodes of Below Deck Med air Mondays at 9 p.m. on Bravo.

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