Jeff Grant
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Marshals.
And that was the first time I'd ever had handcuffs on.
And they brought me downstairs to a cell that was three floors below the federal courthouse where I sat for four or five hours.
And then they brought me upstairs to the magistrate's courtroom where I got arraigned and released without a bond.
And they took my passport and all that stuff.
And I thought,
You know, this was it.
I didn't have a friend left in the world.
My money, I didn't know if it was going to run out.
I didn't know what was going to happen.
My wife had already told me that we were over.
Very soon thereafter, she kicked me out.
And I wound up, well, on the day she kicked me out, I went to my AA meeting in the morning.
And I had been going to the AA meeting for almost two years at that point.
And I went to the meeting.
And when it was my turn to share, I raised my hand.
And I said, you know, I'm Jeff.
I'm an alcoholic.
And I got kicked out of my house.
Because they all knew I had been arrested.