By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There e-bog

Tom Sizemore has been called many things. Brilliant. Brutal. Fiercely talented. Angry. Drug addicted. In reality, hes all of them. Hes a survivor of the Detroit ghetto, the fifty-year-old father of twin boys, and a veteran of dozens of movies. Hes also now sober, after his addiction took his life just about as far down as any human being could go. Through screen-stealing performances in the 1990s movies True Romance, Heat, and Natural Born Killers, Sizemore was so in demand that even when it was widely known that he had a drug problem, directors like Steven Spielberg were offering him roles and begging him to stay sober for them. Robert De Niro personally recruited him for the role of Michael Cheritto in Heat after asking him to dinner and expressing his admiration. Jack Nicholson, Robert Downey, Jr., and Johnny Depp each went out of their way to befriend him. But this same man went from romancing Elizabeth Hurley and Juliette Lewis to being accused of domestic violence by the worlds most famous madam, and moved from a Beverly Hills mansion to a solitary-confinement cell at Chino State Prison and later a desolate, abandoned cabin in a town best known for being where Charles Manson hid Rosemary LaBiancas wallet. For years, Sizemores days were filled with overdoses, suicide attempts, and homelessness. The simple fact is that people dont come back from where Tom Sizemore landedyet miraculously, he did. By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There is a harrowing journey into the heart of addiction, told in riveting and often shocking detaila terrifying cautionary tale for anyone whos peered over the abyss of drug abuse. By turns gritty and heartbreaking, it is also one mans look at a particular moment in entertainment historya window into the drug-fueled spotlight that sent Robert Downey, Jr., to jail and killed River Phoenix, Heath Ledger, and Chris Farley and many others far before their time. *** I CANT TELL YOU WHAT ID GIVE TO BE THE GUY YOU DIDNT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT. . . . IVE DONE A LOT OF THINGS THAT WOULD MAKE THAT IMPOSSIBLE, AND I KNOW THAT TELLING YOU ALL ABOUT THEM WONT HELP ME TO BECOME AMERICAS FAVORITE SON. BUT IT MAY HELP YOU TO UNDERSTAND HOW EVERYTHING HAPPENED THE WAY IT DID. . . . TOM SIZEMORE