Jeff Grant

And we're sitting on the front steps of the rehab.

And they look at me.

And at that point, they're like 18 and 14.

And they look at me and they said, you know, Dad, we don't even know who you are.

And it was the first time I said to them, I said, I don't know who I am either.

And it was like just such a revelation, you know, because I don't know if I was playing a role.

I don't know if I was trying to run to something, run from something.

But I just knew that there was going to be a lot of pain that I

Their lives were going to get ripped out from under them right there.

I mean, whatever we had or wherever we were, this was no longer the case.

Right.

They were scared.

I was scared.

Their mother was pissed.

I actually should have been.

But I got out of rehab and we went home to the house that we were not going to own very much longer.

And the day I got out of rehab, I went to my first AA meeting and I did what I was told.

We sat there in a circle and when it got to me, I raised my hand and I said, I'm Jeff, I'm an alcoholic and a drug addict and I need a temporary sponsor.

And I got a sponsor that night, temporary sponsor.

And that started me in AA.