My bottom was being diagnosed with congestive heart failure.

I'm going to bed every night, damn near 500 pounds.

Pretty sure I'm going to die.

I'm doing an obscene amount of drugs, and drugs are not getting me really high.

And what would happen is I'd get sick for a couple of days and the

swelling would go down. And then I'd use and the drugs would have their potency back, but a couple

days in the swelling would return. The swelling's moving up my legs. Then it gets to my groin and it's

really uncomfortable. So then I'm just using and miserable and swollen and in pain. And the doctor

says you have congestive heart failure. You are going to die. And she's crying. And this is like my

family doctor from when I'm a little kid. How old are you now? 20. 20. Yeah. And she's like, no, I'm so sorry. You're going to die. Like, if you get clean or not,

this is going to kill you. And I thought, like, it'd be nice to leave my parents a clean corpse.

Oh, man. That was my bottom.

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And this is going to be set in the context of a deeply honest and

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has gone on to work with some of the greatest to ever do it, directors like Scorsese,

Aeronovsky, Anthony Miguel and Tony Scott, and actors like Denzel Washington,

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