From the NFL to Rock Bottom — Darren Waller’s Redemption Story
Hot & Bothered
Melyssa Ford
4.7 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This program is intended for informational purposes only and does not contain medical advice. |
| 0:05.2 | As always, please contact your physician or qualified health care provider with any questions regarding a medical condition. |
| 0:11.2 | When I feel trapped and stuck at these parts of me that come out aren't attractive parts of me that come out. |
| 0:16.4 | They're the parts of me that I'm trying to distance. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm thinking about the parallels between you and Aaron Hernandez. |
| 0:23.7 | I can't help but think about them. |
| 0:25.3 | The intense high, you know, just off of something that you're doing can, like, send, like, |
| 0:29.5 | a roar through, like, 80,000 people. |
| 0:31.7 | My body is, like, man, I missed that spike that you get. |
| 0:35.6 | The marriage lasted, like like less than a year. |
| 0:37.7 | What happened? |
| 0:42.9 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:48.1 | Welcome to another episode of Hot and Bothered with Melissa Ford. |
| 0:51.8 | Today's guest is a pro bowler, a musician and a man whose story |
| 0:56.6 | is as powerful on the field as it is off. He's gone from catching passes to catching wisdom, |
| 1:03.6 | to battling demons, to dropping bars, and he still finds the time to stiff arm the stigma |
| 1:10.1 | around mental health. |
| 1:12.2 | Darren Waller is in the building. |
| 1:15.5 | And trust me, this conversation is going deep. |
| 1:18.4 | How did you like all my football references? |
| 1:20.3 | I worked really, really hard on that intro. |
| 1:22.7 | I could tell there was intentionality in the wording. |
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