Popular shock jock and single mom of three, KAY WRIGHT (40"ish), is a high-functioning pill addict who’s never been caught or suspected. But when her very estranged, long-lost husband suddenly reappears in her life, ready to claim their children and expose multiple acts of fraud she has committed, Kay goes on a fast bender and winds up passed out in her employee lounge, stunning her boss, who gives her fourteen days to get rehab or get fired.

SYNOPSIS:

When an outlandish, pill-popping, popular radio host at a well-known Chicago station is found passed out from a high in her employee lounge, she’s given fourteen days to get clean or get fired. ASK KAY is a one hour, four-episode dramatic television series following the severely upended life of KAY WRIGHT (40ish) a hell on wheels, loving single mother of three who has until now enjoyed her success as a shock jock local celebrity, while hiding the secret that she’s a high-functioning medication addict.

Her fans love her and hate her, and Kay has always lived life on her own terms. But when her boss orders her to get clean or lose her career, Kay hits a life-altering impasse. Much as she’d love to stop, she can’t. Instead, Kay doubles down on her double life, which goes far beyond addiction.

Her drug dealing lover, who just happens to be her family doctor threatens to cut her off and end their relationship if she won’t get help, but this fails to stop Kay on her destructive path. Also looming over her is the sudden return of her estranged husband who has been M.I.A. for seven years and now threatens to expose Kay’s numerous acts of fraud in order to get custody of their three teenage children.

Kay’s wall of well-intended lies to survive and “pass” in the world as not only a healthy, “normal” person, but a leader of her community and model of true success has worked up to now. But as it is said, “the truth will come out”. Worst of all, Kay has the ethical crisis of the welfare of her children, who are already silently impacted by her high-risk choices.

As she battles to keep her family together and save her hard-earned career, it is her ill-fated fight for her addiction that keeps her whole world hanging in the balance by a dangerous thread. The singular flame of hope is that Kay knows this and must ask herself, if it’s really worth destroying all that she loves.

really worth destroying all that she loves.