It’s been a long journey for Todd Whitman. It began as the youngest of 10 children growing up with alcoholic parents in Cleveland. At the age of 12, he spent a year in a juvenile detention center for drinking alcohol and getting in to fights. That was the start of more than five combined years of time in prison for drug, assault and weapon charges.
Today Whitman is six years sober working as the executive chef of Sérénité Restaurant and the Recovery Center of Medina County’s Culinary Institute.
