On May 9, 1976, she married Chuck Negron, the singer for Three Dog Night. They both developed major heroin addictions. He blew through millions of dollars chasing the highs and she may have been worse. "When Chuck is asked if he ever knew anyone worse than him, he usually says me," admits Julia, a recovering drug addict. "But we had a great marriage because every drug we got was split 50-50." She overdosed twice in her life and lived.
By 1977, the year Julia Brose and Chuck Negron had their son Charles, Negron devoted his life to being a junkie. She herself snorted heroin in the delivery room before Charle's birth, according to Mother Jones magazine, they both did it. To pay for his habits, Chuck eventually sold everything he owned, including all of his gold albums. "Bit by bit, everything eroded," says Julia. "We took loans against the house, and eventually our telephone and power lines were turned off." They were married 12 years.
Julia lost her sister to an overdose in 1984, which prompted her to sober up and leave her husband in 1985. Then she went to school and worked as a drug counselor for decades.