WKYC TV personality and meteorologist Hollie Strano says she is on a “journey” of recovery and sobriety since her arrest in Cuyahoga Falls some 60 days ago.
In a Facebook post Tuesday, Strano, who has been off the air since her arrest for driving while intoxicated on Thanksgiving, said she’s spent countless hours sitting in her grandpa’s old chair “thinking, crying, reflecting” about what led to that fateful night.
“As I’ve taken time over these past 60 days of different points of how I got there that night…,” she wrote, “I have learned the phrase, begin again.”
Strano expressed deep remorse in the post for the events of the evening that led to her subsequent guilty plea to OVI, a first-degree misdemeanor, for the crash on Akron-Peninsula Road.
“As tragic as it was and as cliché as it may sound, I believe that had to happen to me to put me on this healing journey of sobriety and introspection,” she wrote on social media. “Sometimes we have to make mistakes that are so big that we can’t go back.”