The Cape socialite: alcoholism and the divorce

texture · UNDATED (pre-YDAU; narrated as House mythology)

• When: UNDATED — Pat's twenties, before her stroke; revealed as backfill during Gately's residency
• What: Pat Montesian was, per the House's telling, a young, pretty, and wealthy socialite out on the Cape until her husband divorced her for being a nearly full-blown alcoholic — an abandonment that did not improve her drinking. She was in and out of rehabs and halfway places all through her twenties without being able to get sober.