Dax Shepard

So basically what happened is the two oldest were sort of saddled with, hey, you need to help me raise this family.

And the two youngest were very young.

And so my father, as middle kids do, fell through the cracks.

So, you know, my father was 100% messing around with heroin by the age of 13.

I am certain, based on talking to my aunts and uncles, he was addicted to heroin at 15.

It's really early, right?

And so I grew up in the 80s.

There was this war on drugs.

We can talk about that from a political point of view, but it succeeded in helping me understand that there are places and things you don't want to go and things you don't want to do.

And I don't know if my father had access to that information.

And so he got busted with an ounce of marijuana at 17.

They told him to go to juvie.

He said, screw that, I'm out.

And he split to New Mexico, never to return.

Okay, so he was absconding from justice.

That's right.

When you're five, there's an incident.

Yes.

So briefly with my mother, my mother's story is a mystery.

I don't know why she ended up as she did.