This guy is so bright! I got addicted to prescribed painkillers. When I decided to get clean, I did not throw out my leftover pills. Everyone told me to get rid of them, that they would cause me to relapse. But I didn't. And they didn't. Because I had made the decision to get the monkey off my back. And I was never tempted to take those damn pills. Not even once. Months later when I was clean, I discarded them. No disrespect to Robert Downey, whose drug of choice seems to be coke, withdrawing from opioids was the hardest, most unpleasant experience of my life.
I do no want to sound judge mental. My apologies if I do. Why is this story Amazing? I am here to say this. To those who stay headstrong, don’t give into being a hurtful person to anyone. For those of us who keep doing right by our loved ones and stay true to our best selves. Congratulations to you. I witnessed one murder(watched a man get stabbed numerous times before my grandma put me inside the house), one attempted murder(uncle hit an acquaintance of his, over the head with a baseball bat). One suicide(my aunt drowned in her sleep right next to me after a purposeful one last night of drinking). Here I am having self respect, respect for others and having consideration for all who will let me. Big thank you, to everyone who helps others in life and does it in an unselfish way. Those are the people who are my heroes.
I remember RDJ's stories hitting entertainment news every other week - many people were waiting for the news that he would be found dead or killed. Even The Simpsons made a joke about it in the Mel Gibson episode, where he's having a shootout with the cops.
I think it’s profound to say to yourself while in prison that it isn’t rock bottom. To take in everything and really grasp every advantage to pick up who you now are given everything you did and went through to become a better person. Being able to take the opportunities that came in front of you and work hard to actually literally say “I am iron man” is nothing short of inspirational. I hope many of us can see that a lesson and knowledge to ourselves is just a choice to aim higher. Help is there as he says we just need to make the choice.
I remember him from the early mid 80s and thought nothing of him, then I saw Chaplin when he was still an addict and I knew he was the greatest actor of my generation, maybe of all time. His comments about sobriety are 100 percent true. Sobriety is easy. Deciding to be sober is the tortuous part.
We all know why he didn't want to go back, unfortunately he learned the hard way but fair play to him for staying sober I'm 61 months in my sobriety and it's not alweys fun or easy but it has to be done.
He says it’s easy but let’s not forget he is richer than a lot of people going through addiction. Money doesn’t solve problems but it does give opportunities
You know I was going to call bullshit on this recovery until I heard him say, “what’s hard is to decide” and the fact that he hasn’t done much since then.
Repairing all the hurts you've caused is a nice concept. But it's impossible. All you can do is move forward, and try to make it so that it all wasn't a waste.
Is it just me or does Oprah have a low key condescending approach to this interview? She just sounds like a housewife who is so removed any kinda struggle
Affirmations don't work. Because something else has to happen before affirmation for affirmations to work: you must be willing to change. You have to decide for yourself that enough is enough, lets do something else.Where does decision come? - from right understanding, from deep realization.
@@mikehunt1528 I have no problem with the truth. I have a problem with Q idiots who believe every nonsense they read on the internet. Did Kennedy Jr. already rise from the dead? 🤦♂
Big Iron man fan since I was 5, around 1991 I saw magazine cover when I was 8 years old, it had a picture of RDJ with a thin mustache and I thought right away "he looks like Tony Stark!" 15 years later I cried when he was announced as Tony Stark/Iron Man.
Calma guey lol I know somebody who was locked up with him and he was acting like a ho the whole time lol but hey, he did his time and is doin really well, good for him. Don’t front though man, stop it.
