The Rocket Man reflected on his recovery journey this week, saying he'd be dead if he hadn't reached out for help years ago.
“The life I was leading, flying on the Starship [his private plane], living in beautiful houses, buying things left, right and center — it was not a normal life, not the sort of life I came from anyway,” he
last year. “I lost complete touch with that. I vowed when I did change my life that that would never happen again.”, an Indiana boy who died of an AIDS-related illness in 1990 at age 18, for motivating him to get sober that same year.in 2012. “I was either going to die or I was going to live, and which one did I want to do? And then I said those words, ‘I’ll get help,’ or ‘I need help. I’ll get help.’ And my life turned around.
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