By 2005, Gontier's addiction had escalated into a medical crisis. Recognizing that the singer would not survive without radical intervention, family members and bandmates urged him into the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto. Brewer remained his primary lifeline to reality outside the facility walls.
During his stay at CAMH, Gontier kept notebooks filled with raw lyrical fragments that eventually became the emotional backbone of the 2006 album One-X. Brewer was not a passive observer. She visited regularly, providing stabilizing emotional support and direct lyrical input. Most notably, Brewer earned co-writing credit on "Never Too Late," one of the band's most enduring hits.
The track served as an explicit conversation about survival. Brewer even appeared in the cinematic music video for "Never Too Late," visually anchoring the narrative of someone reaching into the dark to pull an addict back from suicide. The song resonated across alternative rock radio because its hope was grounded in real-time recovery, forged directly between the singer and his wife.
