Hollie Strano Says She Was Fired From WKYC for ‘Sharing Recovery Journey Publicly’ | Cleveland

WKYC anchor Hollie Strano, who fell from grace final November after she was arrested for driving drunk, introduced at this time on social media that she has been fired. It was her said opinion that she was let go for being too clear about her highway to restoration.

Strano’s announcement comes 9 months after she signaled to anxious and/or vital Clevelanders that she can be searching for remedy for alcoholism.

“I’m unhappy to share that after 22 plus years of devoted work, WKYC and Tegna determined to terminate my employment after I shared my restoration journey publicly,” Strano posted on Instagram on Monday.

“I imagine the actions of WKYC and Tegna exhibit the stigma surrounding habit,” she added, “that so many in our neighborhood expertise day by day.”

On Thanksgiving Day final yr, Strano flipped and crashed her SUV on Peninsula Street, driving about 70 mph in a 35 mph zone. Fortuitously, nobody was critically injured within the crash. Cuyahoga Falls Police clocked Strano with a 0.244 BAC—almost thrice the authorized restrict.

Strano pleaded responsible in Cuyahoga Falls Mayor Court docket to a single OVI cost. Her license was taken away for a yr, and Strano needed to attend a week-long intervention program. She was additionally direly scrutinized within the court docket of public opinion.

Days after WKYC suspended Strano, she checked herself right into a rehab program, and framed the selection to take action as a sign of divine intervention. Three months later, Strano returned on air.

“As tragic because it was, and as cliché as it could sound,” she wrote on Instagram in November, “I imagine that [the crash] needed to occur to me to place me on the therapeutic journey of sobriety and introspection.”

Within the months following, Strano stored up her public-facing positivity via common postings on social media, with a number of pictures apparently taken by case employees themselves.

“I by no means knew one thing so laborious would result in a lot pleasure,” a submit from April learn. “To all of you combating your personal combat, please know happiness is on the opposite aspect.”

As of Monday afternoon, neither WKYC or Tegna commented on or confirmed Strano’s account.