• itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      He got clean right? And now talks about how addiction fucked him up. Have a lot of respect for that as someone who is sober now too. Shit’s hard sometimes.

      • Carl@anarchist.nexus
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        Yeah, this photo was actually one of the things that he credits with helping him get clean. Because this was basically rock bottom for him, and seeing this photo in tabloids was a large part of what made him realize how bad his addiction truly was.

        He did the same thing that a lot of addicts do, and basically did a full 180 into health and fitness instead. Basically replaced the drug high with a workout high.

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        He’s strict with drugs still including pain killers in hospital. Did his vasectomy on camera without numbing.

        One exception was for his pay to view stunts video he did a couple years back where he found a willing quack to inject something directly into his spinal cord and then immediately sprint until he was temporarily paralysed. He was okay with that since it was brief, not fun, and not psychoactive.

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        5 days ago

        He went clean AND vegan and his doctor told him he had the cleanest bloodwork he’d ever seen. Which is to say equally clean as everybody else whose bloodwork came up clean.

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      I watched him live on Tom Green’s live stream from his living room during this era, right as he was hitting rock bottom.

      He got out. And so can anyone else reading this.