 he himself jd vance came from a shattered family living with his grandma and his grandpa down the street they had divorced and his mother was there were six men in and out of that house and she was an addict that is jd's story whatever happened whatever got in there that's his story yeah and her mother was in a very lucrative position in in a hospital before her addiction she was a nurse she was a nurse yeah right and then went relatively to the uh... emergency room and lost her job um...