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“I Was Rock Bottom:” Former NBA Star Rex Chapman on Addiction and Recovery | Amanpour and Company

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  • Опубліковано 10 бер 2024
  • NBA veteran Rex Chapman sits down with Michel Martin to discuss his new memoir, "It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me." In it, Chapman details his rise to basketball stardom and the challenges he faced along the way - debilitating anxiety and, as a teen in Kentucky, racist hostility when he engaged in an interracial relationship. Chapman also describes his road to recovery after battling opioid and gambling addictions.
    Originally aired on March 11, 2024
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 37

  • @Mendoza321123
    @Mendoza321123 5 місяців тому +14

    Rex just made me feel sad, angry, relieved, privileged and happy all in 18 minutes. What a remarkable dude.

  • @MeltedPearls
    @MeltedPearls 5 місяців тому +8

    I've followed Rex for years on Twitter and had no idea about his former life. He's a really warm and decent man, to the point of shining like a light on a dark shore. Wow.

  • @choosewisely616
    @choosewisely616 5 місяців тому +5

    Rex, you are amazing! Thanks for sharing your story. It will reach and help many more people than you will ever know. Remember too - the past is the past. Live in the present - who you are now is inspirational. Embrace it!

  • @jasonalaimo4787
    @jasonalaimo4787 5 місяців тому +9

    6/24/97 is my clean date!!!
    Rex is talking about Brene Brown “SHAME”
    The idea that we are not enough or lovable I loved when he talked about the candy through a lot of hard work today I am enough, and I am lovable

  • @juliebraden
    @juliebraden 5 місяців тому +5

    I 🖤 how Rex talked about his sister growing up as an athlete & how it was different for her back wen they were kids. 17:33 Rex: " We deprived young women of that for a long time." Referring to the camaraderie that he experienced being part of a team on & off the court.

    • @buzoff4642
      @buzoff4642 5 місяців тому

      If women needed a role model to aspire to, we'd all be back in the kitchens, barefoot and pregnant.

  • @juliebraden
    @juliebraden 5 місяців тому +5

    14:16 Rex: "all the stars, black stars, they all put their arms around me. All of them."

  • @brent954
    @brent954 5 місяців тому +5

    It’s no small thing to come clean. Thanks for sharing.

  • @juliebraden
    @juliebraden 5 місяців тому +4

    Rex's story is exactly Why the Sackler family shud hav been held MORE accountable! They shud hav paid waay more personally for all the harm they caused & inflicted w/ their incessant drug pushing of opioids. Y rn't those family members who led that company in prison? We said there was a war on drugs & these people were in the Dr.'s office doing drug deals!! Ugghhh!!
    Someone like Rex who seems to hav been a bit predisposed to anxiety & possibly some obsessive type tendencies & possibly other mental health challenges who had been bearing thru it has a Doctor prescribe them this drug that, as a result, spiraled his life down hill.
    From this interview it doesn't sound like he was abusing other drugs until he found Oxycontin which to a brain like Rex's filled a void he had been battling for years it sounds like. This is just so unforgivable by that stupid, selfish family that made their millions off the suffering of millions of people.
    There is no way for me to tell if Rex wud hav succumbed to other drug abuse had he not been intro'd to Oxy & maybe the gambling wud hav taken him dwn the path of ruin. It doesn't seem likely that Rex wud hav just grown & healed w/ out something catastrophic happening that finally convinced & signalled to him he needed to address watevr was going on internally but I truly wndr wat his life trajectory wud have been had he not been intro'd to that insidious drug Oxy in his Dr.'s office one day after a surgery?

  • @hubertsumlin9697
    @hubertsumlin9697 4 місяці тому

    I'm a recovering opiate addict with 16 years clean time. It never gets easy. I still dream about dope and jail and letting my folks down and all that 2 or 3 nights a week. Point is, I'm very happy for Rex, very proud of him. Moving on from opiates is phenomenally difficult but it IS possible. Stories like Rex's are proof.

  • @dionellwalker9762
    @dionellwalker9762 4 місяці тому

    Rex is a remarkable human and you can feel the goodness in his words

  • @terryogara
    @terryogara 5 місяців тому +1

    I don’t follow sports at all but I just bought Rex’s book. Why? Clearly, Rex understands what it means to face life’s struggles head on, and so, who wouldn’t benefit from the lessons he’s learned?

  • @willthomas7666
    @willthomas7666 Місяць тому

    Good for him... im a huge lville fan.. and dont care for uk.. but anyone whos been to hell with addiction and gotten out of it, im rooting for and has my respect... i think more ppl should talk about it.. bc ppl that dont have the problem dont get it... geneally

  • @commonwealthedison5346
    @commonwealthedison5346 3 місяці тому

    He's got a really great voice. Was born to be a podcaster or broadcaster after his playing days. .

  • @2bigbufords
    @2bigbufords 4 місяці тому +1

    Rex is the real deal

  • @sam-the-man8500
    @sam-the-man8500 4 місяці тому

    CONGRATULATIONS! REX

  • @davida2047
    @davida2047 4 місяці тому +1

    Rex is actually likeable. Surprised

  • @karlamwynn4001
    @karlamwynn4001 4 місяці тому +1

    Authenticity.

  • @AgathaZeus
    @AgathaZeus 4 місяці тому

    God bless you rex

  • @ttwarrior1
    @ttwarrior1 4 місяці тому

    he had a nickname in owensboro . Lets just say he likes the BBD

  • @fontainerouge
    @fontainerouge 5 місяців тому

    Pretty profound.

  • @jho7781
    @jho7781 4 місяці тому

    Identify the coach, name him right now

    • @NoNo-ks4gg
      @NoNo-ks4gg 4 місяці тому

      Eddie "friggin" Sutton!
      Racist 🤡!

  • @UKFANINJAPAN
    @UKFANINJAPAN 4 місяці тому

    Rex is such a lefty. It hurts me that I idolized this person when I was a kid. He is a petty grifter for feelings.

    • @ANTI_FAscist_WW2champs
      @ANTI_FAscist_WW2champs 4 місяці тому

      now look who you idolize 🤣 i’m not into politics, but i’d say rex is the better option, especially after what he’s been through

    • @UKFANINJAPAN
      @UKFANINJAPAN 4 місяці тому

      @@ANTI_FAscist_WW2champs look who I idolize? I’m 49, I don’t idolize any one . Certainly not a rich, gambling, winny, stealing, drug abusing, book writing victim. Dude could play ball but living life, dude isn’t too good.

    • @krisharkleroad8
      @krisharkleroad8 4 місяці тому +3

      Sounds like you've got your own issues. Good luck.

    • @UKFANINJAPAN
      @UKFANINJAPAN 4 місяці тому

      My own issues? My issues are with people who have been told how great they are their entire lives, paid multiple millions of dollars, abused drugs, gambled all their money away, stole to fund their drug habits and then Wanna okay the victim role. And then for me to realize the person I wanted to be (when I was in middle school) is a loser with a capital L. I have raised 4 kids and live a normal life. Ya know, no drug abuse, pay bills, no jail time. Live at the means of my salary and not beyond it. Save my money for my children, responsible human stuff. I detest leftist and the ideology that drives their victimhood. If those are the issues you insinuate, I have plenty.

    • @mikeh2351
      @mikeh2351 4 місяці тому

      ​@@UKFANINJAPANyikes, delusions! You need to stop externalizing and start internalizing if you gonna turn this ship around!

  • @CeeGeeZ
    @CeeGeeZ 5 місяців тому +1

    PROOF POSiTiVE of the basis of RAW #️⃣TRUTH for authentic wholeness living. BRAV🟠 & GOOD FORTUNE.

  • @ANTI_FAscist_WW2champs
    @ANTI_FAscist_WW2champs 4 місяці тому

    not many better people than my man rex!