Avoiding the Truth of Rock Bottom

What were you doing those four and five years in between the seed being planted and you becoming the Anthony Trucks that we know now?

I was avoiding the truth. That's what you do, right? You. You realize what it is and you don't want to. It's all her fault. The marriage fell apart. How? You know, you horrible person, you blame it on her. You blame the business failures and not being great on the economy. You blame being out of shape on your injury. You know, it's a bunch. You just blame it because you don't want to accept it. And it took me three years of, you know, doing all the things, partying, hanging out, drinking, you know, doing all the sex and multiple partners and stuff. You think it's like it's gonna fill the hole, and it's empty. Very, very empty. And you wake up one day, and I did. Took me another 14 months to finally wake up on New Year's Day with a strange woman from Russia. I'd flown out in my bed, hookah on my tongue, and just going, I hate this man. And so I went through that dark alley, and then finally, that was the bottom. And I was just hanging out down there. And that was the moment I go, I can't do this. This isn't what a father would do. That's going to be a great man for his boys to mimic or his daughter to look.