Valeire Dowden is one of the stars of CMT’s Bayou Billionaires which follows the lives of Valerie’s parents Gerald and Kitten Dowden of Shreveport, Louisiana who struck it rich when the fourth largest deposit of natural gas in the United States was found on their property. After being the subject of some very harsh comments on various social media sites about some of her mannerisms, Valerie revealed that she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2008. Keep reading for excerpts from the interview in which she talks about what it has been like living with the disease and why she didn’t want the subject to come up on the show.