{"id":24852,"date":"2023-04-28T09:55:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T13:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=24852"},"modified":"2023-05-05T09:51:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T13:51:12","slug":"love-is-blind-star-details-how-god-helped-him-forgive-his-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/04\/love-is-blind-star-details-how-god-helped-him-forgive-his-mother.html","title":{"rendered":"‘Love Is Blind’ Star Details How God Helped Him Forgive His Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zack Goytowski, a season four cast member of the Netflix dating show \u201cLove Is Blind,\u201d shared intimate details about his tough childhood on Instagram, saying that learning about Jesus helped him forgive his mother shortly before she died. In the post, Goytowski said, \u201cWe all can be someone\u2019s hope in the hopelessness.\u201d<\/p>\n

His post started with his life circumstances when he was in high school, dealing with a mother with drug addiction and mental illness. He shared, \u201cMy senior year in high school, I was filled with anger and rage. My mother\u2019s mental illness and addiction were out of control.\u201d<\/p>\n

Goytowski shared that he typically avoided going home after school because he didn\u2019t know what state the house would be in once he got there. Sometimes, he\u2019d go into his room to find his mother smashed the walls with a hammer, or the house would be filthy with clothes thrown all over when his mother went into a manic rage.<\/p>\n

He wrote, \u201cThere was no stability. Every time I made a friend, I\u2019d have to move on and say goodbye,\u201d remembering the numerous times they moved to different houses, adding that he and his sister had to change schools. However, during his senior year, a friend invited him to her Christian youth group. That was where Goytowski gained a sense of community and learned the power of forgiveness through Jesus\u2019 example. He learned \u201cabout a man who sacrificed everything so others could be forgiven.\u201d<\/p>\n

Goytowski said his mother had lost custody of his sister and had been committed to mental institutions several times during his junior years in college. Almost six months passed before he saw her again. When he started volunteering at a homeless shelter and heard the stories of people who hit rock bottom, he realized his mother\u2019s behavior and refusal to see him was likely because she was embarrassed to tell him she was homeless.<\/p>\n

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