Terry Crews: How My Porn Addiction Nearly Ended My Marriage

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Terry Crews is a NFL player turned film and TV star, featuring in a wide range of hugely successful shows like Brooklyn Nine-Nine, White Chicks, Everybody Hates Chris and Idiocracy. Escaping his abusive father, and spending decades cultivating his bodybuilder physique and mentality, Terry then broke into the Hollywood scene. This episode is the Terry Crews we have never seen before. We talk about some extremely deep, raw material and explore his deeply personal story of his childhood which led him into an addiction to appearing outwardly tough. His journey to where he is now is inspiring and the way he speaks about it is so humbling. Certain areas of his life that became out of control such as violence, sex, relationships, racism, shame, made him learn how to seek control of himself and his environment. His latest book, Tough: My Journey to True Power, is a moving autobiography where Terry faces these insecurities and distressing memories. Follow Terry: Twitter - https://twitter.com/terrycrews Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/terrycrews Terry's book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tough-My-Journey-True-Power/dp/0593329805/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1651096152&sr=8-2 Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	My desire to be strong was because I knew one day I may have to kill my father.
0:36.5	Athlete artist actor Terry Cruz. That's right. I always wanted to be a superhero.
0:42.8	One of my earliest memories was my father knocking my mother out.
0:46.9	She'd be nursing a black eye.
0:49.2	And I was just dance in front of her and she just started cracking up. In the middle of all that pain I saw the ability to make her laugh.
0:57.0	Pornography numbed my pain. I had this addiction for the longest time. How did it impact your marriage? She said I was
1:06.8	different. I damaged my family, I damaged my wife. You got to own up to it. You have to do what's within your power to make things right.
1:19.0	One thing that changed for me is I stopped competing with people and I said don't try to be the best, be the only.
1:28.0	So without further ado, I'm Stephen Bartlett and this is the diary of a CEO USA Edition. I hope nobody's listening
1:36.4	but if you are then please keep this to yourself. Terry, I always start these conversations in a very similar way, but having read your new book tough, I feel like it's never been more relevant to what I'm about to say.
1:56.8	Reading through your new book, especially in the first chapter, it becomes so blatantly clear how our early context
2:04.7	shapes who we become in many ways.
2:07.2	And there's never been a more glaring example of that.
2:11.5	So I feel like that has to be the place we start. of that
2:15.0	context in which you were raised.
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