Parents find out their runaway daughter is ALIVE and living rough on the streets of Boston after seeing her interviewed on CNN about being homeless on 'Methadone Mile' (10 Pics)

One father pledges to live on the streets with his daughter until she seeks treatment.

It wasn’t until Julie Chandler and Paul DiGiacomo saw a CNN reporter interviewing a man and woman addicted to opioids and living on the streets of Boston that they knew their daughter Meghan was alive.

They weren’t alone.

A CNN report about heroin addiction in America last week was watched by two parents who saw their daughter being interviewed. CNN's Gary Tuchman is seen left interviewing Meghan DiGiacomo in Boston

In a recent follow-up segment to his earlier story on the national opioid crisis, CNN’s Gary Tuchman revealed that the mother of Billy Donovan, who he’d interviewed along “Methadone Mile,” also said she didn’t know her son’s whereabouts until the story aired in late October.

“If my son were to die, I just don’t know how I would go on,” Kristina Barboza said to Tuchman in the interview.

Paul DiGiacomo (left) and his wife were unsure if their daughter, Meghan DiGiacomo (right), was alive before they watched the segment. DiGiacomo is seen above reunited with his daughter two weeks after the initial report ran on CNN

Paul DiGiacomo even took the extreme step of joining his daughter on the streets of Boston

He said he would also live as a homeless person alongside his daughter until she agreed to get help for her addiction. Paul DiGiacomo (left), Meghan DiGiacomo (center), and CNN's Gary Tuchman (right) are seen in the image above

‘I’m never giving up on Meghan,' her mother, Julie Chandler (above), said. 'She won’t die. She can’t’

Meghan DiGiacomo was profiled by the cable news network during Anderson Cooper’s program earlier this week

She was living on the streets of Boston's notorious 'Methadone Mile' - an area of downtown that has become a haven for heroin addicts

DiGiacomo and another addict interviewed by CNN told their stories of how they were unable to wean themselves off of heroin despite many attempts at rehabilitation

Meghan DiGiacomo told CNN she lost a boyfriend who like her had overdosed on heroin

‘I lost the love of my life,’ she said. ‘We both overdosed and when I woke up, he was dead’

Tuchman said Donovan’s friends also saw the segment and were able to find him on the streets of downtown Boston to convince him to enter a treatment facility.

When Tuchman went back to re-interview Meghan DiGiacomo two weeks later, she wasn’t alone. Paul DiGiacomo, her father, had located her and was living outside with her. He pledged that he won’t stop living with her on the street until she enters a treatment program or goes to the hospital, according to CNN.

“I’m never giving up on Meghan,” Chandler said. “She won’t die. She can’t.”

Watch the full segment below: