Dax Shepard

The one story I have came from my sister was that they used to have a jar of pills at school.

Keep in mind, this is the 60s.

I don't mean free love by that.

I mean a sense of ignorance about how powerful pharmaceutical drugs are.

They'd just have a jar and they would go take them out of the jar.

Fuck that, right?

So to the degree that that story is true, you can point at something.

But largely speaking, I don't know why my mother ended up with the problems that she had.

By the time I'm five, my father already tried to kill himself.

He gets really, really high and he threatens to set the place on fire, the apartment on fire.

Breaks up bottles, bleeding out.

Cops have to come.

The ambulance comes.

I don't remember it well, but I have vague memories of it.

And I have an older sister.

Yeah, exactly.

So what happened there is the whole thing fell apart because my father is like, I'm going to burn the place down.

My mother is like, we're out.

And so that resulted in a divorce.

So I ended up living alone with my mother near my grandparents for that year.