Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has spoken out about his late sister, Miriam, who "slowly surrendered to her wild side" and succumbed to a drug overdose, aged 49, in 2011.

"It was heartbreaking," the conservative Texas senator, 44, wrote about the tragic death in his book, A Time for Truth. "I loved my sister, and she spent much of her life trapped by the demons of addiction and anger."

Now, Breaking Celebrity News can reveal exclusive details about Miriam's life of crime, which included at least ten arrests and several prison stints around Delaware County, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia.

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