Grayson Russell

Yeah, because you can teach others your struggles, right, what you went through.

I told you that story about my granddad.

I've got a song that will come out for Father's Day called Turned Out Good that's the kind of pre-chorus of it is sometimes I'd look into his eyes and they seemed old.

But just by looking, you'd never know that his mom died when he was three.

He got cancer, pick and caught, and fell down in the weeds, and he wasn't tall enough to see what was going on.

At seven, he got paralyzed from the waist down because the fever took his legs, so he'd slide on the ground.

But they took him to a tent revival, and they all watched him run.

So you can't tell me that they're hitting a father and they're hitting a son because he turned out good, and I saw it.

And nobody will take that away from me because I saw the man that he became after losing a mom.

lost a mom, being terminally ill, and then just not anymore.

On the other side of that, I told you I did a master's in clinical mental health counseling.

I did so much work with actors.

Just, you know, you get put in a relatively confined space somewhere where you've never been before with four or five other people and you're there for two months.

Working 16 hours a day, you all get pretty freaking close.

And somebody's life's almost always falling apart.

If it isn't mine, it's somebody else's.

And I figured, you know, if I'm going to be put in this situation, I want to know what I'm doing.

And so I went and I got up, you know, I was able to do a master's in it.

And I remember sitting outside.

cooking steaks with my dad in Alabama, and I don't get to go home that often.