Griffin O'Neal recently sat down for an interview with People, where he talked about addiction. The magazine quotes him as follows:
"My whole family has been absolutely destroyed to smithereens from drug addiction and alcoholism. The common denominator is drugs and alcohol and depression and it's a never-ending cycle. I had to walk away from all of it. I'm done. My mother was an alcoholic and she took weight-loss pills and other drugs. The combination of the two, along with her not being emotional stable because she was orphaned at age 6 and lived a rough life – was heart-wrenching. I was the family joint roller. My life has been a reign of drug and alcohol degradation. I had to self medicate my entire life because there was pain everywhere. There were drugs everywhere in my family all day, every day. It was the '60s and '70s and Tatum and I had a tough time. I had to go to prison and I have a multitude of DUIs. At least 10. I was basically an alcoholic but I did every drug on the planet. I had problems with cocaine and speed too. I'm three and half years sober. I've had stints of sobriety throughout my life. I was raised in rehabilitation center and institutions and I think I graduated from high school in my third rehab in 1982. That's the part that is heartbreaking but maybe also inspiration for people dealing with the disease."
Read the full interview at People.
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