Darren Waller
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NFL career.
But yeah, in college, um, when you start, there's like, there's a program to when you start to fail, um, drug tests.
So they, uh, put me with like a sports psychologist and they had me like talking to the sports psychologist and it's kind of like, you know, you can kind of keep those people at arm's length.
That's just kind of what I got good at doing.
Yeah.
And then it's like this, after the second test, they started sending me to like these outpatient, um,
um, rehab programs to where like three nights a week I would go to, um, basically like a rehab place and they would teach you about addiction and all this stuff.
And there's like these sharing groups and therapies and all that.
And it's like, I can give those people a run around of like, okay, yeah.
Like you signed this contract of like, you're not going to, you're going to be sober for like the six week program or whatever it was.
And it's like, I'll sign the contract and it's like, I'm going getting high as soon as I leave.
Um,
And that continued on throughout college.
And it's just like, yeah, all these people were trying to help me and trying to figure out, OK, like what is going on here and zeroing in their focus on me.
But I'm just like, you know, dodging and trying to find any way possible to allow myself to keep doing what I've been doing.
Much more so now.
There was a โ I was in San Diego.
I think it was like right before or right after my divorce.
And I was doing a sound bath.
A really good friend of mine, Donnie, we went and did like a sound bath.