Robin Williams: Alcohol, Cocaine, & Rehab

you're not easy on yourself in this show are you no you know as an alcoholic i talk about you know some warning signs you know like duis and a cul-de-sac things like that the idea of you know have you been through it to talk about it and see like you know this is what you go through heart surgery you know alcohol so i went to rehab and wine country just to keep my options open and the idea of you know these are things you got to talk about well you had you you got your own vineyard oh yes that's like gandhi owning a delicatessen yeah what are you doing this is not for my consumption so you were dry for 20 years yes why did you fall off i was in a little town in alaska it wasn't the end of the world but you can see it from there and it was like all of a sudden i thought i could drink it's also that same thought you have if you look off a large building and go i can fly and within a week it was like gone you know and now you know i realize i can't so that was the gift you know how um how vividly can you remember falling into the trap in the first place with with cocaine and alcohol i don't vividly remember anything from it's like there is this thing for alcoholics called a blackout which isn't really a blackout it's more like sleepwalking with activities and i believe it's your conscience going into a witness protection program going you're about to have sex with a hobbit i've got to go now good luck i'm checking out i'm leaving the body on but we're not going to remember anything good luck to you take care but do you remember getting into it getting into it no it was an individual thing and you're off you know oh yeah yeah off and running and then the alcohol kicked and decided and then eventually you realized i can't i remember stopping it on my own because i was about to have a son and i didn't want to be coked up going hey dad loves you here's a little switch i'm going to throw up on you you know you don't want to be like that and i had to kind of go but i did it alone so that was why it was you know in 20 years without any help of course there are people who would say why did you ever need cocaine yeah it's a bit redundant you're as you're as fast without it as as the heaviest cocaine yeah yeah it's that weird thing but i think i did it because it would it would actually allow me not to talk it was like you know reverse medication i want to give ritalin to hyperactive children it's that idea of kind of oh okay i don't have to talk to people it just kind of shuts you down which is a you know word self-medication and i've read that your friend john belushi's death from from an overdose was that scares you a bit of a rude shot for you totally and that but more importantly my son i think that was the beginning of kind of you know thinking outside the box of you've got a responsibility and it's more than you how hard was it to break the grip the second time around i'm not hard once you go to rehab i mean really busy yeah that's the beginning of kind of you know um the idea is you gotta surrender you gotta just say i can't do it because you know i went to rehab with a lot of doctors and psychiatrists and the the more intelligent you think you are the harder it is to let go everything i've got a solution i'll just drink a little bit it's like saying i'll just partially circumcise myself i'll be fine and then you have to go nope you lose you can't do it you need help and at that point that's the beginning and then you know once you do that you're out and running

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Id: 2HYehrSA-Ew

Length: 3min 7sec (187 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 07 2017