Beth Hart won Star Search in 1993, landed a major label deal with Atlantic Records, and scored a hit when LA Song reached the top ten of the adult contemporary chart and appeared on Beverly Hills, 90210. Then addiction and untreated bipolar disorder cost her everything, and Atlantic dropped her. This episode follows the Los Angeles-born singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from classical piano at age four and cello studies at the Los Angeles High School for the Performing Arts to rock bottom and back.

The comeback took shape in Europe, where her 2003 album Leave the Light On went double platinum and Learning to Live hit number one in Denmark. Sober and married to her road manager Scott Guetzkow, Hart returned to the United States through collaborations with Joe Bonamassa, Slash, and Jeff Beck, and in December 2012 she sang I'd Rath ...