Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
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What led to Chris Cella's opioid addiction?
Making me tense, man. Just telling me this story.
And he had girls in his halfway houses that he was giving heroin, giving crack and pimping them out and then sending them back to treatment. where they would ultimately fail their drug test and have to go to detox. And guess who gets a kickback from the detox center? No way. It's a revolving door of suffering and just pain for the addict. But they're making money at every stop. This is disgusting. And then she pulls out a handgun. And she's like, what the are you doing in my house? My kids are in there. And I'm like, oh my God, you have kids? If you have your kids sleeping in there, you're kind of a shitty mom. So you insult the lady with the gun pointed at you.
Yes, because, because. You got balls, I'll say that. Thanks for doing this, Chris. How long were you addicted to opioids?
So I was addicted to opioids from the age of 15 to 23, kind of on and off, you know, in and out of rehab for those eight years. But yeah.
15 to 23. How did you grow up?
So I grew up in, I was born in Dallas, grew up in South Orange County, moved there when I was five, kind of bounced around, but all in kind of relatively the same area. Southern California. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Southern California, Orange County. And my sister or my family, you know, addiction kind of just runs in my family.
As it does many.
Yeah. Right. You know, I do believe it is. There is a genetic component to, you know, kind of the addictive personality. You know, absolutely. A hundred percent.
You think? How much alcoholism is there in Israel? How much alcoholism is there in Sweden? You know, it's a big difference.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So, you know, my – so growing up, my dad was – he was a general counsel at an oil company in Texas. So he was traveling a lot and he was also – a heavy drinker. He would, he is not the type of person who like needed to wake up and, you know, drink in the morning to function, but he would go on benders, you know, for days, weeks at a time. And, um, and then my, uh, my mom, um, she was a long distance runner and she had a diving accident that left her basically, she was a victim of big pharma's, uh, push in the early to mid nineties for Oxycontin, um, and then eventually fentanyl. And, you know, this little pathetic pill pushing quack is, you know, giving her just massive amounts of Oxycontin.
And she liked the way she hated the way it felt. And she she's like, I don't like this. You know, it's making me like comatose. And the doctor's like, well, you need to keep taking it. And so she she decided to flush him down the toilet once. And and she went into excruciating withdrawal. And, you know, I'll touch more on withdrawal later. But it's yeah, she so she your parents married. Yes. Yes. Yes. They were married.
Your dad's a general counsel of a big company. Your mom's a distance runner. So these are like competent people who got their act together. These are not like this, not the junkie profile.
Yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah. Like my father, he was he graduated college at 19 and he went to Columbia Law School. I mean, you know, so. Oh, wow. Yeah.
OK. I'm sorry. I think that I think it's important to set this in a socioeconomic frame.
Yeah, because there's – yeah, addiction does not – it does not – it doesn't matter whether you're rich, poor, black, white, whatever. It's indiscriminatory. Yeah, that's true.
So, yeah, my – So this doctor keeps pushing opioids on your mom.
Yes.
By the way, to be a distance runner, I admire that, but it suggests like true self-discipline, a high level of awareness of your body. I mean, who's a distance runner? You know, only people who are very, very into fitness and very, very kind of like batting down people.
Right. Correct? Yeah. Yeah. No, my mom was. Absolutely. You know, one of the most disciplined people that I've ever met. Well, you kind of have to be, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And I mean, a lot of long-distance running to me is absolutely, sounds like torture. Well, it's torture. It is torture. But it's highly impressive. Yeah, no, it is absolutely.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What led to Chris Cella's opioid addiction?
0:08–4:41
2
What happened when Chris burned down the Entourage house?
4:41–8:08
3
What do rehab experiences really look like?
8:08–9:53
4
How did Chris Cella go from addiction to recovery?
9:53–14:27
5
What consequences did Chris face for his addiction?
14:27–17:31
6
How did Chris's family deal with his addiction?
17:31–1:45:20
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