In an episode in the 3rd season Nick is on a drug deep blue mystic and he has helucination of this woman he is trying to help that really turns out to be his mom i think that died of a drug problem when he was younger that was one of the best episodes i have ever seen eben had that Kate Bush song in it Woman's Work
Nicks mum was played by Glenn Headley. she didnt die from drugs, she died from cancer. she didnt tell nick she was ill and had his stuff sent to burtons house and she just disappeaered from his life until she was too ill to stop him from seeing her in the hospital.
she did battle drink and drugs which was one reason she left burton, he was also seeing other women and treated her terrible.
It was a great episode!. I just posted a "new topic" on it. I'm very glad I didn't know he was hallucinating until the end so I wrote "spoiler" after topic.
artemis - the words "Nick's hallucinogen experience" are in the title of your post! if someone hasn't seen that episode how will that protect the surprise?!?!?!?!
Not really! She was the one cheating, not Burton. Burton, however, never told Nick how things had really gone, because Nick still loved his mom too much and he did not want to spoil those memories.