Chris Cella
speaker
267 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Chris Cella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
I sprayed him in the face with pepper spray and put something to his throat. Don't move.
And he had girls in his halfway houses that he was giving heroin, giving crack and pimping them out and then sending them back to treatment. where they would ultimately fail their drug test and have to go to detox. And guess who gets a kickback from the detox center? No way. It's a revolving door of suffering and just pain for the addict. But they're making money at every stop. This is disgusting.
And then she pulls out a handgun. And she's like, what the are you doing in my house? My kids are in there. And I'm like, oh my God, you have kids? If you have your kids sleeping in there, you're kind of a shitty mom. So you insult the lady with the gun pointed at you.
So I was addicted to opioids from the age of 15 to 23, kind of on and off, you know, in and out of rehab for those eight years. But yeah.
So I grew up in, I was born in Dallas, grew up in South Orange County, moved there when I was five, kind of bounced around, but all in kind of relatively the same area. Southern California. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Southern California, Orange County. And my sister or my family, you know, addiction kind of just runs in my family.
Yeah. Right. You know, I do believe it is. There is a genetic component to, you know, kind of the addictive personality. You know, absolutely. A hundred percent.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So, you know, my – so growing up, my dad was – he was a general counsel at an oil company in Texas. So he was traveling a lot and he was also – a heavy drinker. He would, he is not the type of person who like needed to wake up and, you know, drink in the morning to function, but he would go on benders, you know, for days, weeks at a time.
And, um, and then my, uh, my mom, um, she was a long distance runner and she had a diving accident that left her basically, she was a victim of big pharma's, uh, push in the early to mid nineties for Oxycontin, um, and then eventually fentanyl. And, you know, this little pathetic pill pushing quack is, you know, giving her just massive amounts of Oxycontin.
And she liked the way she hated the way it felt. And she she's like, I don't like this. You know, it's making me like comatose. And the doctor's like, well, you need to keep taking it. And so she she decided to flush him down the toilet once. And and she went into excruciating withdrawal. And, you know, I'll touch more on withdrawal later. But it's yeah, she so she your parents married. Yes. Yes.
Yes. They were married.
Yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah. Like my father, he was he graduated college at 19 and he went to Columbia Law School. I mean, you know, so. Oh, wow. Yeah.
Yeah, because there's – yeah, addiction does not – it does not – it doesn't matter whether you're rich, poor, black, white, whatever. It's indiscriminatory. Yeah, that's true.
Yes.
Right. Correct? Yeah. Yeah. No, my mom was. Absolutely. You know, one of the most disciplined people that I've ever met. Well, you kind of have to be, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And I mean, a lot of long-distance running to me is absolutely, sounds like torture. Well, it's torture. It is torture. But it's highly impressive. Yeah, no, it is absolutely.
And so, you know, she had these multiple surgeries that only exacerbated the issue.
Yeah, a neck injury that she got from, it wasn't related to her long distance running, but it was a diving incident. She hit her neck on the diving board. And so, yeah, this guy's, first he's pushing Oxycontin on her. And then he says, okay, well, let's try something different. It might be less, like, you know, less addictive possibly, you know, because fentanyl is brand new.
And, you know, might make you feel a little bit better to where you can function throughout the day. So he puts her on fentanyl and fentanyl is so powerful.
No, no, it's, I mean, it's, it's, yeah, you have to laugh. Otherwise you'll cry because it's like fentanyl is the most, so powerful that it has to be administered in micrograms. Yeah. Like, you know, like the 25 micrograms, whereas most drugs are administered in milligrams. So like that just shows you how potent. How many kids does your mom have? Three.
Yeah. Oh, no, she was living in Dallas when she became addicted to the fentanyl, or addicted to the Oxy, at least. And then when we moved to Southern California, we moved to Southern California, my dad started his own practice with his brother. They were both lawyers, so... And then my sister, she had a serious issue with bulimia and anorexia from the age of 10 to 28.
Like so serious that her potassium levels were so low that ambulances at our home were like a regular occurrence. And there was multiple times when they said, your daughter might make it. Not might might not make it to, you know, to my father. And so witnessing all of this at a very young age. And again, I'm not trying again. I just want to like preface. This is not an excuse for my actions.
Showing 1–20 of 267 · page 1 of 14
Next →