The drinking really started when I got my first knee injury skateboarding.

I injured my knee, got knee surgery, healed for six months, and then re-tore my knee right after that,

like right after I was fully healed, and that kind of knocked all the wind out of my sails.

It was a little bit of an uptick in drinking at that point.

So I think I just slowly started talking more about skateboarding than actually doing it.

And I didn't have an anchor in life. I didn't have a job. I didn't have like a purpose, really.

I was trying to skateboard, but I didn't know what I was aiming at. I got pulled over the car broke down and breathalyzer. I tried to give a

PBA card to get out of it. He just threw it right back at me and ended up getting the Dewee.

And I just laughed it off. You know, I'm too cool for this, whatever, it doesn't phase me.

And then just another couple of years are just continuing to drink. And then I got another one.

And you get two DWIs within three years and you're usually looking at some jail time.

And I was scared of going to jail.

That was the moment where it just hit me a ton of bricks.

That everything that that whole situation brought for the second DWI is when I realized something had to change.

Before. brought for the second DWI is when I realized something had to change. Before he got the Guinness Book of World Records for skateboarding across America, that's

3,000 plus miles, before his viral YouTube channel and his book and his documentary,

Chad Caruso was sitting behind the wheel of somebody else's broken down car at 4 a.m. on his

birthday, and he had just failed a breathalyzer, which meant he was going to get his second DWI.

And it also meant that he was facing a felony and possible jail time.

And that was the rock bottom moment that changed everything for Chad.

He got sober.

He paid off the $10,000 in debt that he had to borrow for his legal fees.

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