Dax Shepard
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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.
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.