Hunter Biden

Shame is not.

Shame is just absolutely corrosive.

Shame is you telling yourself that you're not worthy, that you're never going to be worthy, that the things that you've done, you can never be redeemed from.

And I've done horrible things in my addiction in terms of what I did in terms of my relationships and decisions that I made.

And more than anything, it's just

removing myself from being present for the people that love me.

Um, and, um, and what happened to me, um,

and I really mean this, is that the exposure, not piecemeal, but the total exposure, my entire digital footprint stolen from me, a 20-year digital footprint, every text message, every picture, all of the things that you would be ashamed of,

became, uh, front page news for, for four years, five years, um, beginning in 2019.

And, uh, and it forced me into a choice and the choice was, do I get out of bed and live or do I die?

And it became that much of a dichotomy and.

And I chose to live.

And it wasn't easy.

And maintaining sobriety in that kind of like a pressure cooker is often the thing that triggers you.

But something broke in me in a good way, which was that I no longer have any fear.

I, I like, you know, sitting down with you is to me an, all an opportunity for you to see me as a human being and not, um, you know, Hunter Biden laptop.

and the pictures that Congressman Greene put up in Congress, or the New York Post.

I think I was on the cover of the New York Post in one year more than anybody in the history of the paper.

And none of it was good.

None of it was good.