Chris Cella
Appearances
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
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.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, it's really a hard addiction to break, and I'm still addicted to nicotine. Yeah, me too. But I'm enjoying it, I will say, Chris. Yeah, me too.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
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.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, yeah.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Just some, just like slimy, just dirt bag. And I mean, I don't, yeah, I mean, just, yeah, just some guy that, you know, we were only, the only reason we associated with him was because he had that connection. And yeah, not exactly, you know, he's the type of guy who would steal your wallet and help you look for it. But again, that's what most junkies are. Was he using heroin too?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was, um, he was a big user and he was actually ripped. I found out he was ripping us off when I got a direct connection and he was basically saying it was double the price for the amount. Cause you get like a, you get a little package with 12 balloons in it and it was $45 and he was saying it was $90.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
So he's able to like get to pocket one and give one and give one to, to us. So did you have to go with him to South LA? Yeah, I, we would drive him. He didn't have a car. So, um, you know, I would drive him in my, uh, my 1998 Jeep and we'd all just pile in there. And this, the feds were watching like these, like they literally, there was an article in the OC register, um,
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
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.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I think it came out while I was in rehab, but, uh, basically just kind of giving an overview of the whole thing. The number you'd call, the guy's name was boss. So you call this phone number and, and this guy goes, all right, how, what do you want? And you tell him how many packs you want. And then he's like, all right, meet.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And it would be like one of three freeway exits, you know, right in that area. And like always like a fast food parking lot, something like that. Yeah. What, what town? It was Southgate. Boy, that's just depressing, that area. So, so, yeah.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just, yeah, some, yeah, we can just pull in real quick. And then they'd – You'd meet the – they would always send a runner and usually it was a different person. But I started – so yeah, they'd meet you. They'd say, all right, come into the car. You get into the passenger seat. They reach into the air vent, pull it out, give you the dope, give them the money.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Um, you know, this is, this is the kind of one of the crazier things about this whole, this whole experience. So the runner that I had the most contact with, uh, he was, you know, he's a cool guy, just this little Hispanic guy, you know, I mean, obviously a gangbanger who would, you know, shoot you as soon as they look at you, but, um... He was very, you know, very nice to me.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And, you know, he would give me discounts occasionally. And he actually, finally, he was like, hey, you know what? You no longer have to call boss. You can just hear, I'll give you my personal line. And you can just call me and then, you know, have to save you the hassle of going through the whole process. I was like, oh, cool, man. Thanks.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And so, you know, we developed a kind of, you know, friendship, I guess. And it's probably the wildest story that I have. So... So my friends from South Orange County, again, very affluent. I don't know if you've heard of like Nellie Gale in South Orange County. It's like one of the ritziest neighborhoods in the country. It's got like horse trails running through it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And the houses are like at a minimum $5 million. So yeah, it's a very nice area, very affluent area. And that's where pretty much all my friends lived. But this girl we knew, her uncle was, he owned the house. Have you seen the show Entourage? Have you heard of it? Yeah. Yeah. So he owned the house that at least like two seasons of the show were filmed in.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And she's like, yeah, we can go up there for the weekend. I was like, oh, awesome. And so it's funny. We drive all the way to Beverly Hills with like two and a half hour drive and up this private road to this, you know, this beautiful mansion. The door's locked. And she kind of lied or, you know, misled us about having permission to go to the house. And so I'm like, are you fucking kidding?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And anyways, excuse me. So I ended up finding, I saw like a door sized window, like on the side of the house. And so I maneuvered my way up there, pushed on the door and it just popped open. I was like waiting for an alarm to go off. Okay. So I walk in, open the front door, and we're in. And then I was like, oh, man, I really need some heroin, but I don't want to drive down to Southgate.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And so I called the guy, and I was like, hey, man – we've got a huge mansion. You know, there's only like seven of us. This is why you don't let your niece bust into your house with her junkie buddies. We'll just wait. And I was like, yeah, you know, if you want to, if you can, you know, I know you don't typically do deliveries, but if you could bring me an order, you know, you're welcome to stay.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I mean, bring whomever you want. So he brings like two big Mexican dudes and like 10 big booty Latina beautiful chicks. Yeah. Yeah. And a candy dish with all these different pills, Valium, Xanax, you know, Oxys, just all that. And at least an eight ball of Coke, a giant bag of Coke. And that was, those were just party favors. And he brought me my order, obviously.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
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.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
But, and so we spent the night drinking. Partying, you know, hanging out in the indoor pool, you know, doing lines off of, you know, girls' stomachs. And it was a wild, crazy time. I mean, it was like literally like the show Entourage, but like junkie version. It's just going on inside. Unbelievable. Yeah. Did the uncle ever come back? Well...
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
So, the next morning, and thank God... Were you in high school at this point? Yeah, I was 16, I think. It's so... Because I was going back and trying to remember things, and it's like, some of it is so blurry that it's hard to like, wait, when? How old was I?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And so... The next morning, myself and a few other people leave. Did you sleep at all or just play through? No, I didn't sleep for a second. And yeah, I left the next morning with a few of my buddies and the gang bangers departed. And the big booty Latina girls too. Yes, yes. They left as well. And so, you know, I go back to Orange County and the next day, a police officer comes to our house.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
and um it's like a female um investigator and she's like asking me questions like were you at this house and blah blah and i was like i was there on she's like were you there like saturday i was like no i was there friday i was like i was there friday i was told we were allowed to be there because i thought it was breaking and entering that's what i assumed and so i was like i was told we were supposed to be there allowed to be there and you know so
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
and she's like well you're not aware that that portion of the house was burned down and I'm like No. What are you talking about? And so she proceeds to tell me the story. Apparently, some of the other people that the girl invited out for the next night, one person got really high, fell asleep with like a frozen pizza in the oven or something like that and started a fire.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And instead of like trying to put out, they just left. Yeah. Drug addicts are all the same, aren't they? And so there's like literally smoke billowing from this and it's like on a hill like too. So like you can see it from like. Like very far away.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, exactly. And so like they're driving down the hill as the fire, you know, the ambulance and the cops are coming up the hill and the cop flips a you and he's like, because it's a private road and only leads to that house. And so they're like, are you leaving that house? They're like, no. You know, idiots. No, of course not. We weren't there, you know, lying, lying, lying.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And then the cops are like, come on. So, you know, and the I think one of them ended up getting charged with like fleeing the scene of a crime or something like that. But nothing serious came out of it. But yeah, it was wild. And like when she told me that, I was like, how did they know you were there? Because the house owner basically gave her a list of everyone who was there.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Like the girl who took us out there basically gave the – But it was her uncle's house. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he owned it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
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.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Well, my parents, God bless them. They're so naive. And my dad had this consistent belief that our kids will do the right thing because it's the right thing to do, not because of the consequence that could come from it. And as noble as that is, it's just – it doesn't work. You have to have consequences. Otherwise, you will –
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
run rampant and think you can do whatever you want yeah and that's how it is it's not i don't judge them i grew up i mean they sound like southern californians and their attitudes that way yeah yeah and uh you know yeah my dad was just um you know very you know had a very strong um moral conviction that you know he believed just was passed on to us and so uh so my parents were again you know
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
had no idea what was going on until um kind of another story basically long story short i had a friend who was put into a coma um we were at a party and this guy this guy came out really angry and just punched my friend in the face he fell hit his head
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
put into a coma and he wakes up three weeks later and my mom is there I wasn't there my mom was there and she and he says Patty you need to get Chris away from and she named out she named you know some of the kids that I was associating with and she said why you know because you know they're at my house that was the first thing he said when he came out of a coma yes Yes. God exists. Yeah. Yeah.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
God bless him. Really. It was. And then, of course, you know, at the time I was like that, you know, snitch, you know, that kind of mentality. It's like, why are you trying to rain on my parade? You know, I'm just having a good time. And, but yeah, you know, I mean, my friends tried several, like, you know, my, my, my, my quote unquote stoner friends tried several interventions.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And I was just like, you know, extremely defensive and like, who are you people to tell me anything, you know? And, you know, but again, they had my best interest at heart. And, and, and, you know, many of those people I'm still in contact with today. And, yeah. I'm so grateful that they, you know, took the time and the effort to try to save me from myself.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, going to class, you know, leaving early, stuff like that, you know, ditching, you know, like fifth period, fourth period to go hang out.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Every day.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
So wake up. So I wasn't shooting it up yet. I was smoking it at first. How did you smoke it? So in California, heroin is mostly black tar heroin. From Asia, correct? Yeah.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Okay. Um, but, uh, yeah, it's like this like little black, yeah, like square. And so you put it on a piece of tinfoil, you put a lighter underneath it and you get a straw and it makes like, it goes, it'll like trail down the tinfoil and you're, and the smoke's coming up and you suck it through the straw with the lighter. And, uh,
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
yeah that was the what's the highlight from it uh i mean just total euphoria again you feel like you're on you're on top of the world you can it doesn't matter if you're literally your life is falling down around you you don't care it's like you're fine everything is fine everything is great wow yeah so again then it's the insanity how long does it last Um, I was just smoking it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yes. They were married.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And again, it all depends on like your tolerance level and things like that and things like that. But I would say like, you know, probably three, four hours, five hours.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
So I would do it before school, you know, at home. In your bedroom? Yeah. Yeah. And your parents had no idea. Or in my shower. Yeah. And yeah, no, they didn't. Yeah, they didn't. So when my friend got out of the coma, they started to kind of try to keep a closer eye on me. But I was still, you know, I was incredibly deceptive and very manipulative. Of course.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Very manipulative and deceptive with my parents, making them think that, oh, these kids are great. No, they're actually the good kids. Uh, um, and God, when I think about like the torment that I put my parents through, it is just.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Uh, so I was, um, I had, I had, I still had that job at the, um, uh, golf or selling golf clubs. And, um, and then I, you know, I would occasionally take money from my parents, um, whatever i needed to do um and things i'm you know not proud of i bet uh but yeah that's the nature of the disease is you will do anything to get that get that next fix yes um and uh
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
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.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
So, from smoking, it quickly deteriorated to shooting up because, you know, I'd say within like a month of smoking it, I started shooting up because, you know, a couple of my buddies started doing it and they're like, oh my gosh, dude, you only have to use like one-fifth of the amount and you get like a high that's like ten times better. I'm like, oh, great, save money. Yeah.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And, yeah, I remember the first time, like, I remember the first time my buddy and I did it, we looked it up, how to inject, you know, great Google search, how to inject heroin into your body. You Google searched it? Yeah. And, like, they have, like, images of, like, because you're supposed to go, like, diagonally, like, with the, you know, like, just go straight down. Right.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Because you want to go into the vein. Yes. And then you basically draw back the syringe. And once you see blood, because you know that it's in the vein, then you inject it. Right. if you miss, it's really painful. Uh, you basically, what happens is like you don't, and you don't get that immediate euphoric rush that you, that comes with shooting up.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
That's, that doesn't come with smoke, like smoking it. Yes, you get euphoria, but shooting up, it's like that it's instantaneous and it's, it hits so much harder. It's like crack versus cocaine. Yeah. Um, And, yeah, it was just a very— Can I just ask you for perspective? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I would say less than a year, probably about, like, nine months. Damn. Damn.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah. Progressive illness.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
It was at my buddy's house in Laguna Hills, in that neighborhood that I mentioned, Nellie Gill.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, exactly. And so, yeah, we were in his room and I did it. And yeah, again, it's that just this overwhelming sense of euphoria and joy. Yeah, everything is wonderful, even if your life sucks. And again, I understand why a lot of homeless people do drugs. It's because their life is literally just in shambles.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, so what's the point? Yeah, exactly. Why not just live in almost like a metaverse? Yes, exactly. Nicely put. Thank you. So... Yeah, so I went to, like, probably, I would say, not exaggerating, over 10 rehab centers in California.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
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.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Oh, yeah, so— I was – so I was shooting up on a daily basis and I actually started going to a continuation school because I was just – I stopped going to class. My grades were too low and I basically got kicked out of school. And so I was at a continuation school. So you wind up in... Yeah, the place I would ridicule and mock. And then now I'm one of them. Was your junkie friend still there?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
No, because he was like... much older. Yeah. Or like, yeah, he was a, yeah, he was a senior when I, like I was a sophomore and he, and he barely attended, like I saw him a few times on campus, but he barely went to school even when he was at continuation school. So yeah. And yeah, we really didn't associate with that guy other than just a
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
go buy drugs, but, um, cause he was not exactly, you know, a fun person to be around. Uh, and so I doing drugs, doing hair or doing it, shooting up heroin before school. And for some reason that day I decided to take my, uh, take all my drugs with me. I had a little like Ziploc packet with my syringe, my, uh, you know, my, uh, What I use to tie off, you know, you know, all my equipment.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
So there are certain pharmacies that will, you know, if you say, you know, my grandmother's a diabetic or whatever that I think nowadays they just give them to you in a lot of places, especially like Northern California.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, 100%. It's disgusting. Gavin Newsom makes me sick. The money, like, you know, he talks about this multifaceted plan to attack the opioid epidemic. It's like, yeah, you've spent billions of dollars and it's only gotten worse.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yes, absolutely. And so, I got, so I decided for some dumb reason to bring my drugs to school with me that day. And, yeah. And I also did something that I would never normally do. I told some random person that I'd never met that I was high on heroin. Like in class, like someone I'd sat next to the first time seemed like a cool person, cool guy. Like, yeah, I'm on heroin. Yeah.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And he's like, oh, really? And like, didn't seem like he was going to tell on me. And, uh, and so I'm in, I remember like two periods later, I'm in class and, uh, some administrator comes into the room and says, um, Chris Chella, can you come to the office? And, and I saw a cop behind her and I was like, oh, fuck.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yes.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And so I go down to the office and, um, she's like, yeah, um, we heard a rumor that you were doing drugs. And I'm like, who said that? She's like, well, I can't tell you. And I was like, well, it's not true. You know, deny, deny, deny, deny. But they're like, she's like, okay, well, you know, we're going to search you.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And I was like, I don't think you guys have the, I don't think you guys have the legal right to search me. And she's like, if we have probable cause and like, you know, the basically I, I allowed it. I wasn't sure if it was legal or not, but, um, I was hoping that, and, and so they searched me in pants, you know, belts, all that stuff. And she was about to turn away.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And then she says, wait, let me check your socks. Literally like last thing she did. And I was like, Oh fuck. And so of course got caught, got arrested. So you had the kid in your socks. Yeah. Yeah. It's just like high socks with it. Just like right here. And, um, So I get, you know, arrested or detained and my, you know, the cop releases me into my mom's custody. And my mom drives me home.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
She says, you're, you're going to rehab. Like, you know, I don't want to hear anything about it. You're going to rehab. And I was like, okay.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yes. Yes. And, and that's why she would, You know, at times, you know, when I was like, I was in terrible withdrawal and I was like, mom, I'm dying. Like, I need, like, please just give me like, you know, and, you know, she would occasionally give me a little bit of money just to, because she felt, because she knew, she knew.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And God bless her, you know, she just, I put so, I, you know, I rained down so much terror and chaos upon my parents that, They were just trying everything they could think of. And, you know, some things they did really well. Some things, obviously, you know, again, being a parent is hard. Especially a parent of a wild, psychotic drug addict.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And dealing with, you know, obviously, you know, my sister's issues as well. You know, just goodness. But as soon as my mom turned her back, I stole the $80 she had in cash out of her wallet and drove to L.A., And obviously – oh, so the gangbanger that – I left this out. The gangbanger that I was partying with, I really regret doing this because I consider him a friend.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
But I was desperate at the time, and so I was like, all right, I'm going to rob him. So you're going to rob the gangbanger. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and so I, I, that doesn't seem like a good decision. No, no. Um, again, but you know, so desperate in, in agony and like, what else can I do? Um, so I got this like 220 pound, 225 pound Scottish kid and this big kid from the football team.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Um, and I'm like, yeah, we're just going to rob this little skinny Mexican guy. It's like, no problem. And they're like, all right, cool. And, um,
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
what as as we were getting up there wait wait like super dumb people then yes one of one of them one of them became a meth head he mocked me for being a heroin addict and like you know shunned me but then he became like a hardcore meth head and um uh but when i like so but you just go to them cold hey we're gonna rob some mexican kid yeah and i i failed to mention that he was you know
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
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.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
a gangbanger and, you know, had associations with the Mexican mafia. And, uh, and so I, I kind of let, I accidentally let that slip, um, on the ride up there and they're like, uh, we don't want to do this anymore. Yeah. And, and, and so like we get there and I'm like, you fucking pussies. And so I just, sorry, cursing. Um, so I just, uh, uh, get into the car myself and,
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
and commit it, commit the robbery. How do you rob him? So I sprayed him in the face with pepper spray and put something to his throat, said, don't move, and just reached into the, because I knew where he kept it, and just reached in and grabbed it. And, and then jumped out. My friend was in the driver's seat. And I was like, go. And he's driving like a maniac.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I'm like, dude, calm down, slow down, like, because very narrow streets in that area. It's like that. And so we're driving.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
This was in like Southgate, like the same same area that, you know, I was going to pick up the stuff before.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I haven't had the opportunity. You haven't been back to Southgate? No. Yeah. If you're watching, I apologize, man. Would you like to say sorry? Yeah. No, I do regret it. But so, yeah. So my friend's driving down the street and I see him driving down the perpendicular street behind us. And I'm like, how the fuck is he driving? I just... Like unloaded a bunch of pepper spray in his face.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
He's armed too. What?
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, probably. Yeah. And so we're like my, so I'm like, all right, just keep driving. And he, for some reason, he like just does like a wild turn onto a very narrow residential street, crashes into an oncoming car. Oh, come on. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm just like, you fucking idiot. Do you go to church? Yes. Good. Yes, I've gone to confession so many times.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, no, I should have died so many times over. You think? Like, yeah, I mean, the amount of, not just, you know, the stupid things that I was doing outside of my use, but I mean, the, like, if I was an addict in the age of fentanyl, where, like, fentanyl is laced in, I probably would have died.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And so, you know, she had these multiple surgeries that only exacerbated the issue.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Just because I stopped in 2016 when that was like when it started to really get – like when they started to put heroin into – or fentanyl into heroin and other drugs because – When Trump got elected and the Chinese decided to just like kill a huge part of our population. Yeah, flood our country with poison basically. Right. Yeah, I remember that.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
No, no, no. You're fine. I'm just blowing my mind with this. You're fine. You're fine.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, a neck injury that she got from, it wasn't related to her long distance running, but it was a diving incident. She hit her neck on the diving board. And so, yeah, this guy's, first he's pushing Oxycontin on her. And then he says, okay, well, let's try something different. It might be less, like, you know, less addictive possibly, you know, because fentanyl is brand new.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I sprayed him in the face with pepper spray and put something to his throat. Don't move.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Head on, yeah, with some, you know, driver by. And so I jump out of the car, stash my drugs. Have you used the heroin yet? No, no.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah. And but I like I stashed it. And this one like there was like because there was a bunch of people like they immediately started to like and my two friends take off, by the way. They just start running down the street.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah. Yeah. And in South in South.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, yeah, yeah, like sore thumbs, like a big, yeah. I mean, well, one of them was Hispanic, so maybe not so much, but the Scottish guy, yeah. And so we, so I jump out of the car, I stash my drugs, sit down on the curb and wait for the police. You know, because there's so many people there, so many witnesses. And, but again, no one knew that what had just transpired, all this, all, again,
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And, you know, might make you feel a little bit better to where you can function throughout the day. So he puts her on fentanyl and fentanyl is so powerful.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Like it was just a car accident as far as they were concerned and as far as the police were concerned. And so – Yeah, my friends run, and the cops come. They show up. They're like, you know, hey, what are you doing out here? I was like, we were trying to find a friend's house. We got turned around. Insulted. Yeah, made up some bullshit stories. Just trying to find a friend's house.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And he's like, well, do you need to go to the hospital? And I'm like, no, no, I'm good. I'm good. I'm fine. And he's like, okay, well, do you have a ride? I was like, yeah, I'm going to call somebody to pick me up. And he's like, okay. And so, you know, I wait for them to depart and go back into the little bush. Of course, grab my drugs. Can't forget that.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And then I ended up getting a ride from a buddy, another user. And I was like, hey, I'll give you some dope if you pick me up. Because I was very concerned that they were going to, like, I was like, I need to get out of Southgate. Fast. Yeah, like right away. Yeah. And so I was like, dude, just please come pick me up. I will make it worth your while. And so I get picked up.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
No, no, it's, I mean, it's, it's, yeah, you have to laugh. Otherwise you'll cry because it's like fentanyl is the most, so powerful that it has to be administered in micrograms. Yeah. Like, you know, like the 25 micrograms, whereas most drugs are administered in milligrams. So like that just shows you how potent. How many kids does your mom have? Three.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Well, I was actually this nice lady. She was like, her house was like right next to where the accident took place. And so I was like, do you mind if I just like post up on your front step? Like, I was like, I'm... I just want to wait for my ride. And, you know, it's kind of, I'm kind of scared.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I'm in a dangerous neighborhood, you know, played like the little, you know, and she's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, very kind. And so I just sit there and wait and I have like the drugs in my fist ready to like toss them at a moment's notice if I need to or whatever. And then I get picked up and that's that.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
But what transpired after – because thankfully, they only knew me by CJ, like Chris Jr., my initials. That's what I went by, my nickname from like kindergarten through – Yeah, through high school. And then they knew I lived in South Orange County, but they didn't know anything else.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And so they would – so they switched up the way they did their – like the way they did the process of selling the dope where they would – now you had to – so you had to meet up, then follow them down like this empty street or an alley or something like that, then stand up against a chain link fence and get searched – And then you could get into the car and get your stuff.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And they would ask every single person, do you know CJ? Do you know CJ from South Orange County? Do you know where he lives? And yeah, so for a very long while, and you know, I was like so grateful when I saw that OC Register article, the fact that they had, and I saw that his picture in the, you know, his mugshot in the article, wild, and his name listed hot. I'm just not going to say it.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
But, yeah, I mean, crazy stuff.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Well, one of them became a meth head. Yes, as you said. And it's ironic because when they got caught, they got caught at like a Starbucks. Cops picked them up and they immediately just spilled everything. They told them the whole story for no reason. And I know for a fact because my father represented him in the hit and run.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And the, the, the, I took the DA like until almost the end of the trial to figure out that I was also associated. And like, he's like, wait, your son was involved in this. And my dad was like trying so hard to thread the needle, you know, to not get me, not expose me to any potential criminality and also, you know, defend my friend and, uh,
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
yeah it was so one became a drug addict and the other one I kind of lost lost contact with have no idea how many of the guys that you partied with in high school are sober now how many are dead do you do you keep track Um, from high school, uh, most, uh, yeah, I, I, one friend passed away. Um, opiate user, good guy, but, um, you know, he wasn't like a particularly heinous junkie.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I mean, he just was a junkie. Um, but he was a good, I like, you know, good hearted. Uh, and, uh, but he passed away, um, of an OD. Yeah. Overdose. Uh, And, you know, I had, I met a few friends in rehab, one whom I was very close to lived in New York and, you know, we stayed in contact, met in Florida, stayed in contact.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And for, you know, like four years and then, you know, I got a call from his mom saying that he had OD'd, you know, relapsed and, you know, it was just heartbreaking. But, yeah. Most of my friends, like the stoners from high school, are very successful individuals, college graduates, working in finance, working in different sectors and having a great life.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
The opioid users kind of like they have the advantage of like many of them that I hang out with or hung out with, excuse me, were already, you know, their family was just uber wealthy. Like one of them, one of their fathers was the CEO of a company called Ameriquest. It was worth like, you know.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah. Oh, no, she was living in Dallas when she became addicted to the fentanyl, or addicted to the Oxy, at least. And then when we moved to Southern California, we moved to Southern California, my dad started his own practice with his brother. They were both lawyers, so... And then my sister, she had a serious issue with bulimia and anorexia from the age of 10 to 28.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
um 80 million dollars uh so they uh they had a you know a lot of money to fall back on so like they tried opening up like a clothing line different thing but ultimately music label what music label no not yet that's kind of the classic one yeah No, there were other kids in Orange County that did do that, that tried to start a rap group, and I'm just like... Of course, yeah.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I could write this story. It's just, yeah, Orange County is so weird. But... Anyway, so yeah, so I've, well, yeah, but most of my friends from high school are very successful. And I mean, I like the one, the stoners are, yeah, yeah. But unfortunately, yeah, I've lost multiple friends, you know, people that I actually genuinely cared about, not just, you know, acquaintances.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
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.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
You know, too many acquaintances to count, but, you know, real friends. It's been like, you know, like five.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
no and oh this is this is nuts when i was in rehab so the guy the guy boss right he had different runners like you know multiple guys who would run to cars and one time i had this guy and um and so i was in rehab and it was like a it was in it was in san diego um and uh i think chula vista great place to put a rehab but it was like well your rehab was in chula vista yeah
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
and uh yeah it's like you're setting yourself up to fail um but uh they uh had like it was a mansion and then it uh kind of like a bungalow they had little like bungalows um like type things and so it could house about like 30 40 people and so they had me there and this guy comes in and I'm like, he looks familiar.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And I didn't like, I didn't, I couldn't put my finger on where I'd seen him before. And he goes, he goes, Hey man, he said, he said, I used to, he said, I used to run for boss. And I, he's like, I think I delivered to you once. And I'm like, And he's like, and he's like, he's like, he's like, you're friends with Harvey, right? And the guy that robbed, the guy that I robbed.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And I was like, yeah, yeah, great friends. And I was like, I heard he was locked up, though. He's like, yeah, no, he's out now. And I was like, oh, okay. And he's like, I'll tell him you said hi when, because you get a seven-day blackout and you can't use the phone when you first go in. A lot of treatment centers have that rule. This place did. And so...
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
He's like, yeah, I'll tell you said what up when I when I talked to him. I'm like, oh, my God, he's this guy's going to knife me in my sleep, you know, and I was seriously I I was concerned.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I was going to tell like my therapist and see, you know, what could potentially be done because I was genuinely because you could easily in that place sneak out of your bedroom going and go into someone else's bedroom. Yeah. If you wanted to. It's not like it's locked down. You know, they have, you know, quote unquote.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
people that are watching at night but the place is so big it's you know you could do it if you want and of course there are no locks on the doors no no of course not because yeah yeah yeah exactly um people were buying air duster and like using you know like anything to get a buzz and i was just like wow that was kind of eye-opening for me but not eye-opening enough to stop but it's like wow this year so how many times did you go to rehab
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Total between California and Florida, probably somewhere between 15 and 20. 15 and 20? Yeah. I got, cause I got kicked out of a bunch of places for stupid, for, for reasons that were not related to drugs necessarily. Uh, fraternization, fraternization. What does that mean? Hooking up with girls that were.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah. I mean, not again, consensually. Right. No, I'm sorry. Right. I meant that in a consensual. Just let me, yeah, clarify that.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And, um, so, I mean, I was like 17, 18 years old. Um, yeah. Does heroin affect your sex drive? Yes, it lowers it a lot. And then when you come off of it, you're horny 24-7. Yeah. Yeah, because it's like... Cocaine is like that.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, and it's interesting because one of my therapists described withdrawal as your body basically being in shock because you've been numbing all your senses for so long.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And then when you stop... Your body is, like, everything is just, like, taking in light.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Chewing food. Everything hurt. Like, my eyes hurt. My teeth hurt. Every muscle and bone in my body ached. Like, it is... If you could find a way to, like, inject that into... Like, find a way to, like, inject that feeling into a, like, for interrogation purposes... Let that guy sweat it out for a day. He'll tell you what all the bombs are. I assure you.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Like so serious that her potassium levels were so low that ambulances at our home were like a regular occurrence. And there was multiple times when they said, your daughter might make it. Not might might not make it to, you know, to my father. And so witnessing all of this at a very young age. And again, I'm not trying again. I just want to like preface. This is not an excuse for my actions.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
You know, it is like, truly, I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Really? Yeah.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Pretty much. There were a few times when I was... uh, like kind of just on and off using. And so it was like the withdrawal was like, yeah, I kind of felt it, but there were, yeah, probably about 10 times when I went through hardcore withdrawal and, uh, yeah, every single time I was like, I never want to feel this feeling again, you know? And, but I wasn't, I still wasn't
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
committing to myself that I wanted to stop.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Uh, I mean, it's, they say like up to like seven days typically, but I mean, in reality, I mean, my, um, withdrawal, um, the, my last withdrawal lasted about like three, it was like three weeks before I remember, I remember like the day I was like laying in bed and I was like, wow, I actually feel comfortable. Like my body doesn't ache. Like I can, I'm like, I feel, I feel kind of normal.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah. I mean, and it's like, again, the first week is just like absolute hell. You're sweating bullets. You're cold. Like the sweat on your body makes you cold. And then it's just, it's, it's terrible. And again, all of the other things I described and that just slowly. And then, and then the, the discomfort, it's like the epitome of discomfort.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
some people got like diarrhea things like that I didn't some people got like would vomit and stuff but that never really happened to me I guess it's just you know depends on the person but yeah it just overwhelming like sense of just yeah shock I guess is the best way to put it and yeah again just terrible
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah. Yeah. So the first rehab I ever went to was, it was called the Phoenix house and it was in, um, it was in like Northern orange County and it was a state run facility. And like you, it was like a kind of like a bootcamp style. You had to like fold your bed with the military, you know, corner crease and everything like that. All your, um, shirts had to be lined up your, um,
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
You know, your toiletries had to be perfectly in a row, all that stuff. And, you know, I... did that. And I was like, I was like, I hate this. This sucks. And all I want to do is get out and, you know, I'm just like, I just can't wait till this 30 days is over so I can leave.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And, and I was like, I was like, I don't think I want to do, I was like, I, at that time I was like, I don't think I want to do heroin, but I definitely want to, like, I still want to be able to smoke marijuana. I still want to be able to drink. And like, and, uh, I mean, to this day, I still, you know, smoke marijuana and drink, uh, recreationally, occasionally. Um, but,
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Like I own everything that I did and all the terrible things that I did. It's not. But I think that the chaos that I had that I, you know.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, I made the decision that I... You know, I just wasn't ready to quit yet. And I think what... It's really... You can go to as many different treatment centers, doctors, AA meetings. It has to be, I think, an intrinsic motivation to better yourself. And... You have to want that. Like you have to want it. You can't do it for somebody else.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
If you're doing it for your child, if you're doing it for your wife, if you're doing it for your parents, you're going to fail.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Basically, I didn't have the necessary things like structure and discipline that I think are so important for everyone, but especially for people with addictive personalities to have that rigid kind of, I'm going to wake up, I'm going to make my bed, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that. And so, like, my parents, I was never sure. I knew my parents loved me. Like, my parents, they...
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah. I mean, again, it's it's I think that like it's it's it all depends on the person. But again, it has to you have to want it. That's the bottom line is like you have to want it. And like these treatment centers, they can't they do some good, but they should not be like you should not say, you know, rehab is a cure or a is a cure because like.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, if you're go if you go into those places, you can sometimes develop the intrinsic motivation through therapy or through discussion with other people or whatever. But I mean, for me, it was so fast forward a little bit. So, you know, I get basically kicked out of every rehab in California. So my parents are like, all right, let's send you to Florida. Let's try a new environment.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And South Florida was like the rehab capital. Of course, Delray. Yeah. Yeah, Delray, Boynton Beach. And it was just – I mean I was shocked that like some of the places where the halfway houses were – or the – Sober homes were located like down the street from like the known markets where people like were, you know. It's a scam.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, they see you as an insurance policy with a heartbeat. Exactly. That's pretty much it, you know, and... True villains, I think. Yeah, yeah. No, no, this most, the most sinister man probably in, if you want to just pick one out is, his name is ******. He was, I, that was the first treatment center I went to in Florida. So ****** owned a treatment center and he owned several halfway houses.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
But they were all – everything was in his wife's name. That's one thing that was like a red flag to me. And so – and this guy shows up to the rehab center in like a three-piece Armani suit with like a Gucci belt and like dressed like a pimp. I mean – and ironically, he is a pimp. He was – so he had girls in his halfway houses that he was giving heroin, giving crack, and pimping them out.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I was never short on that, but they were so busy trying to deal with my sister and their own issue. My father, he's been off. He stopped drinking. He just cold turkey stopped drinking for – it's been 25 years now.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
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?
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah. And it's the South Florida rehab shuffle. There are many cases of it. If you just Google that, you'll see a bunch of different stories. But I would say it was like the kingpin of just absolute scumbag, like you said, villain, a villain, a true villain. That's so evil that it's hard. Yeah. It's incomprehensible to me as a human being.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, essentially.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I never heard of it. No, he was sentenced to 27 years in prison. Wow, good. Yeah, so the feds started to crack down on the Florida rehab shuffle, although I read – Uh, somewhere that it's supposedly coming back.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Um, that the, you know, cause it's basically, and you know, it wasn't the, he was probably one of the worst offenders, but a lot of these guys were, you know, they, they would just like, you know, get these cheap homes. Um, fill them with as many addicts as they could.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Sometimes they would charge rent like 75 bucks a week or something like that, plus the money they're getting from kickbacks from whichever treatment center they send them to. So they're housed. And then if they go to detox, the kickback, it's a revolving door of chaos and a revolving door of suffering and just pain for the addict. But they're making money at every stop.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I think a lot of people were starting to wake up to it, and I knew one of the girls who was one of his victims, and she was always like – Man, I just want to get the hell out of here. And she had this like look in her like I could see that there was something. And I thought she was just very like, you know, maybe had some some issues with her family or whatever.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, he never went to AA or anything like that. And so, again, it's, you know, addiction or, you know, treatment can be as simple as, you know, going to therapy. It doesn't have to include, you know, rehab and all these different things. But, yeah.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Just a very depressed, sad person, even for an addict, even for an addict. Like I could tell that there was something like she was in absolute like misery and terror. She was afraid. They were afraid. Many people were afraid of him. And what he would do if they spoke out. And it was just, it was heartbreaking for me to see that.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Even as someone who's obviously committed crimes and things like that, I can't even imagine having the will to carry out such a monstrous act.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Addicts are some of the most resourceful, intelligent people on the planet. Like, you drop an addict in the middle of the desert, and they're going to find the nearest tribe with an opium pipe, you know, within 30 minutes.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Well, yeah, but if you get them to... if you can, you know, separate them from the drug and separate them from the addiction and turn that into something that's good, like, you know, an addiction to work or addiction to helping others, you know, that you can get addicted to. Like, I mean, for me, the reason I got sober, I think there's several factors that played into it.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Obviously God, you know, and... and the intrinsic motivation, you know, that I talked about, and having a fantastic support system that was there for me. They were just waiting for me to come to them, you know, just like, Hey, we're here. Just, you know, family. Yeah. My family.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And, um, and, um, one of the, uh, one halfway house owner who was kind of participating in this game, but he cared like he cared. He genuinely cared about the people who were coming to his house. He did not allow any drug use or anything like that. There was, I was at one place that was selling this, this guy was selling crack to his clients at the halfway house. No way. Yes.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And he was selling crack to just people in general. So we would get knocks on our doors at three o'clock in the morning from total fucking spun out crackheads. Come on. Yeah. No, man. And there was no door on the bathroom. It was the middle of the summer in South Florida. It's like 110 degrees out. No air conditioning.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Just fans littering, you know, littered across the living room and down the hallways and stuff. I mean, just an absolute shit show. And people are smoking crack in the halfway house? Yeah. His rule was, you know, fine line, no needles. Like, yeah, you can smoke crack, you can smoke whatever you want, just no needles. Like, all right.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, a couple of times.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
uh so yeah my so my sister your mom uh she so she um eventually switched over to suboxone from fentanyl and then she weaned herself off of that so now she's yeah totally and suboxone is a miracle drug i mean compared to like the alternative which is um methadone which is so so addictive it gets into your bone marrow i mean the the withdrawals from that um
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I'd say it is, it's very destructive, obviously. But in terms of like a high, it's like 30 minutes of, like I can, you know, kind of that I can conquer the world.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
You want to start doing all these like different tasks that you've been putting off, like because you feel confident about them now, but then it wears off and then you're just like so depressed and you think about every bad thing you've ever, it's like, yeah, like I don't know if you've ever had like cocaine withdrawal, like, or, you know, just coming off of cocaine after like a night of bender.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Like my dad would tell me that when he would do coke, like he was just like, you think about like, yeah, In third grade when I pushed that kid, you know, into the stairwell or whatever. Just like every, you know, and just like you just feel like a piece of garbage and you're depressed. Yes.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yes, yes. And crack, it lasts. It's like the high is so fleeting too. Like with heroin, at least you get like a few good hours of, you know, a solid buzz. But with crack, it's like… you know, it goes away relatively fast.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Not very many.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, absolutely.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Well, when I was, so I was living in the halfway house. I was selling, the guy was selling crack to us. And I just smoked some marijuana for the first time in a long time. And it made me, like, very introspective. You know, we can do that. Kind of like psychedelics do, too.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And I was like, you know, and I heard a voice in my head that I can only assume is just, you know, a spiritual awakening God saying like, what are you doing? What are you doing? Why are you here surrounded by these people? Like looking around, I'm just like, I have so much more to offer the world than what I'm, you know, I mean, I'm just a derelict and I don't have to be.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I have people who love me. I have people who would, you know, would die for me. You know, my family is, you know, You know, are so loyal and they love me so much. They just want me to stop being a piece of piece of garbage. And and I just that day I was like, I am done with this stuff. It's not fun anymore. Like and. and I, and I wanted to better myself.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
That was, so, you know, I think that was God instilling the motivation. So yeah, I mean, yeah, I got sober at a crack. It's kind of funny, you know, tried 50 different rehab centers, but ended up, you know, getting sober at a crack house. Um, but I think that that's, yeah, it was, you were smoking weed in the halfway house. Yeah. He didn't care about, yeah.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And yeah, you could smoke anything you wanted in there pretty much. Um, And, yeah, I was just like that day I knew I was never going to touch an opiate again. And I know people say like you have to wake up and make a decision every day that you're not going to use. But it's like I don't even – it doesn't even like register in my mind like –
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
like to fit to say it like oh i'm not going to use heroin today because like you know what i mean you know what i'm saying i do know what you're saying actually yeah it's like because it's like i look back and i'm like that's i i'm a different person i'm truly a different person i i've like evolved it's like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly or you know whatever analogy you want to use but um just and looking back and thinking how could i have possibly done all this
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And yeah, I mean, Christ plays a huge role and I think it's really important. And even for people who are excuse me, you know, maybe atheistic or whatever, but just believing in something greater than yourself that can – that, you know, you can strive to be better and strive to, you know, just whatever, set goals for yourself and achieve them.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
i've heard are much worse than you know your average opiate or even heroin um just because it's it's more drawn out and yeah terrible what a nightmare um so she got better yes and your dad got better but you grew up in an environment where there was a lot of this going on yeah and um
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And by doing that, you are – you know, I think that's how people – can find a way out of addiction and then you grasp onto something, find things that you really enjoy. So like what – I was like, okay, what do I enjoy? Like I love movies. I'm a huge movie fanatic and I'm really interested in politics and journalism.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, Goldwater, yeah. And... So, yeah, politics kind of is in my DNA, I would say. And I remember watching Fox in the lead up to the presidential election. It was like the perfect time to be – get interested in politics, right? You've got Trump and Hillary Clinton. And then I remember seeing you and I was like – and I'm not just saying this because I'm on your podcast.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
This is genuinely the truth. Wow. I saw you on your show, and I was like, I love the way this guy does the news. It's different. It's unique. It's funny. It's like, I want to do something like that.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't I didn't know all that about you. No, I was just like I was just like, wow, this guy is like so much different than the other voices on Fox. You know, I mean, not to you know, I mean, you know, you just bring such a unique perspective. You're willing to, you know, go against, you know, you quote unquote the party.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
and call out the, you know, the rhinos, the neocons, all that stuff. And I was just like, he's he's awesome. Like, this is great.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, no, the desire for it. Like, yeah, and that's what Mexico says. It's like, if you people didn't want it so badly, maybe, you know, it's very true.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, and my dad literally one time he went into the office and he grabbed the guy by his, like, threw him up against the wall. He's like, you're poisoning my fucking wife. Good for your dad.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
So yeah, and lacking that structure, it made me, you know, I think it led to a sense of low self-esteem and the constant need for the approval of others. Like I look back now and I'm like, you know, why the fuck do I, did I care so much about what other people thought?
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, married for 40 plus years. That's incredible. Yeah, they're in love. I mean, they're a true, genuine love story.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And the reason, just really quickly, the reason my dad fell in love with my mom, like at first sight was because he said she was the only woman in New York he saw that was wearing a crucifix like he, that he'd seen in New York. So he's like, he's like, yeah, she's the one. They sound like great people.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, like from like a government perspective.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, I mean I think that one thing we should not be doing is what California is doing and trying to do set up like little basically port-a-potties for addicts to go in and use and – Like little centers with clean needles and all that stuff.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Uh, like, and, and like, it's not like a, you know, cause there's a lot of functional alcoholics and functional, you know, uh, people who, you know, are on like, you know, Valium or whatever, you know, kind of pill, pill poppers that, that, you know, you would never know. But, um, yeah, heroin, I just, I've never seen anyone who doesn't, it doesn't become a lifestyle.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
It's not, it's not like a, a side thing, you know, or hobby or whatever. It is your life. It is all-consuming.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And it's, I guess, you know, I can't, you know, but after years of therapy, they've kind of pinpointed as to like, you know, your quote unquote inner child didn't get enough emotional nourishment, so to speak. And so, yeah, you know, I was so constantly trying desperately to fit in. So, you know, when I got into middle school, high school, and, you know, I was, you know, an honor roll student.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, meth, like, inside and out, too. Heroin doesn't quite, like, do the damage to your, like, your complexion. Yeah, outwardly, but, like, inwardly, I think it's worse. But meth is, yeah, absolutely terrible. Were you around a lot of meth people? Oh, yeah. So, in Northern California, because we moved to Northern California after...
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
When I was 18, I remember my dad came down to San Diego because I was in rehab in San Diego and he picked me up and we drove north. To where? To the Bay Area, to the East Bay. We lived in Concord. Yeah, yeah. And because my grandmother lived in Lafayette. Yep, I know it. And she was... Those were nice towns. I don't know if they still are, but they were.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Well, Concord has been kind of been taken over by there's a lot of gang activity. Okay. Yeah, and like – and it borders Clayton too. So they're like – I think they're probably going to do something about it because Clayton is like a really nice area. So they're probably going to start cracking down more because the rich people are being affected. So now it's a problem.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And so yeah, so we moved up there and again I started associating with – The worst of the worst. Gangbanging meth heads. And I'd never tried meth before. And I remember I was just at this guy's house and he pulls out a pipe. I'm like, all right, yeah, try it. See what the fuss is about. And I – So you're an open-minded young man. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, I didn't necessarily love it.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
It wasn't this like, oh, yeah, I need this. But like my became my best friend was a dealer. So he always had it. So it's like I would always just, yeah, take it like a puff or two. There was one point where I stayed up for 12 days straight. And then slept for eight hours and stayed up for another sort of total of 17 days. So yeah, another five days.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And because doing heroin and meth, it's like meth when you're like basically like, you know, you're up for a day or two, you start to get weird seeing shadow people and shit like that. Then you do heroin and it's like resets you almost. It's kind of like, it's like you, it's like almost like you slept a little bit and your brain's like back to normal. normal, and it's not going into crazy mode.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I have seen meth heads, like, I remember this one story. So I was, we were at this girl's house in her garage, and it was myself, our dealer, and this chick, and she had, you know, just all of her face scratched, you know, from scratching. She looked like, it was terrifying. Um, I'd been kicked out of my house.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
So we were just chilling there, you know, we're just going, you know, from place to place trying to, you know, find a spot to, you know, kick it and rest or whatever. And so we're smoking in there for like three, four hours. And, uh, her and, uh, my friend go into the bathroom or inside or how inside her house.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
and I just kind of like sit back, and I end up like falling asleep, and I didn't realize, I was like, I woke up, and I was like, I had no idea how long I'd been asleep, like 30 seconds, 30 minutes, whatever, and there was no one in the garage, so I like knock on the garage, and I knock on the garage door, kind of peek my head in, I'm like, Hey, what are you guys doing? And she comes out.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
She's like, close the door. I'm like, okay. And then she comes out. She's like, what are you doing in my house? My kids are in there. And I'm like, oh, my God, you have kids? And she's like, yeah, what did you steal? What did you steal? And I'm like, I didn't steal anything. And then she pulls out a handgun. Oh, my God. Yeah, and like it's this switch that flips for some people.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
It's never happened to me, but this flip that switches and they just become a totally different, irrational, dangerous human being. And so – So this woman has a gun pointed at me, and she's like, empty your pockets, blah, blah, blah. And I went like this and pulled out. I was like, look, I didn't steal anything from you. What would I steal? I poked my head into your place for two seconds.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And I'm like, by the way, if you have your kids sleeping in there, you're kind of a shitty mom.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
very, very, you know, I was very, you know, I have a high IQ. I was blessed with that. But once I got into like college where you actually have to start kind of trying a little bit like algebra two and whatnot, I was like, you know, because I started hanging out with kids who were smoking weed, drinking and smoking cigarettes. So,
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yes. Yes. But I was thinking I was like, this woman isn't going to pull the trigger. It was a neighborhood that the houses were like right next to each other. The police station was like down the street.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I don't know what I was thinking. I was just angry and I was high too. So, you know, I'm not exactly in the best, you know, decision-making frame of mind. But anyways, so she's like, she's like, take your fucking clothes off. I want to make sure you didn't steal anything. I'm like, fuck you. Sorry. Yeah, no, no, no, please. I'm like, fuck you. You're out of your fucking mind.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I was like, I didn't steal a fucking thing from you. I was like, you're not going to shoot me. So how about you just let us fucking leave? And, um, so, and, and I'm like, and I'm, and I'm looking at my friend and I'm like, dude, and he's just standing there. Like this guy was a, a piece of work. Um, so that night, so, so she's like, all right, get the fuck out of here.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And she opens her garage up for us and we leave. And my friend calls an Uber and, uh, The Uber, like, her phone died in the middle of the ride. And so, like, the trip got canceled. And so the woman who was driving us was like, get out of my car right now. And we were like still like a couple miles from our destination, his sister's house. And he – and I was like, oh, shit.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And he's like, oh, don't worry. I have a spot we can go to. And I'm like, okay. And so we walk up the street and there's his house. And he's like, yeah – I forget who he said owned it, but, um, he's like, yeah, it's cool if we crash here. And he tries to open the front door. It's not locked. He's like, all right, let me go around the back. And he's like rummaging around.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
He's rummaging around in the backyard and I'm standing in the front, just sitting on the steps. Cause I didn't think there was anything sketchy. And this car drives by and it kind of slows down. And, um, And then it keeps going. And I'm like, huh, that was weird. And then it loops back and then stops. And I was like, oh, shit. So I had a backpack with me.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I grabbed my backpack, hopped the fence into the backyard. And I was like, hey, dude, someone's here. And he takes off. Um, and I'm running and I, it's like, it's four, it's like four in the morning in Northern California in the winter. And I'm running and it's pitch black and I fall into a pool. Um, this is like one of the worst nights of my life.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And I was in, and I was in a low key opiate withdrawal too, on top of all of that.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah. Yeah. And that's why I was so irritable. And probably if I, yeah, if I had been, you know, if I was on heroin, it probably would have gone down a lot differently, but, uh, I probably wouldn't have been as aggressive, but I was so, you know, ticked off. And so, uh, I, uh, fall in the pool. I see flashlights like coming towards us.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Not that I necessarily wanted to smoke weed, drink and smoke cigarettes, but that's what they were doing. So I wanted, you know, I wanted their approval. I wanted to fit in. I wanted to be a part of the cool crowd. And so I started drinking, you know, smoking cigarettes and smoking weed. And so that went on for, you know, I quit the wrestling team.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And this guy has already booked it like over, um, over a fence and he's gone. Like he is gone. Um, And so, I, like, I get out of the pool, and I try to climb the fence, and I still have my backpack on. And, you know, I was, like, soaking wet, and I couldn't climb. It was too heavy.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
So, I just shed the backpack and just hopped the fence, and I'm running down this hill, and I run face first into a chain link fence.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah. And, and my face is like, you know, so now my face is bleeding and my hands are bleeding from climbing the fence and like, and I don't have any shoes on. And so, so I am just so cold and so miserable. And so I, there was a like a hill. And then there was a grocery store, kind of a little strip mall type place. And so I go down there and I look for the sketchiest person possible.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Like, you know, just... You can tell. Yeah. Yeah. They're using my radar. And I was like, hey, man, can I use your phone to call attack? Because I knew if I asked any normal person, they saw me with blood on my face and no shoes on. They'd be like, get the fuck away from me, sir, please. But no, they were... They were really nice.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
They let me use their phone and I called a taxi, jumped into the taxi. I was like, please turn the heat up as high as you can. And I went home and at first my parents weren't going to let me in. And I was like, listen, I'm probably going to get hypothermia if you don't let me in, please. I was like, I will do whatever you want. I will go anywhere. I just please.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And I remember like going into their room and just like wrapping myself up in a giant blanket. And I was like, I'd never felt so relieved in my life.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I think it was someone who like because the house, it turns out the house was for rent and it was it was there was no one in it. And so I didn't know, of course, I didn't know that. He said, yeah, this is a spot that we can go to. I just assumed it was another dope fiends. Another dope fiend's place. And yeah, all that.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And, you know, one thing that really breaks my heart is like, it's really the, yeah, one of the most, I'd say, difficult things that I had to accept that I did was because my dad would, from time to time, figure out where I was and go to these, you know, these crack houses and places like that and beg me to come home.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And I remember one time specifically, he said, please, please, Chris, please come home. Like, your family loves you. Please. In tears. And my dad doesn't cry. Uh, and, and I was just like, no. And he's like, okay, well at least take, and he gave me his, um, his crucifix and, uh, St. Christopher medal. Um, I still have, I broke the chain, but I still have them today, uh, to this day. And, uh.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I, you know, I pretty much abandoned everything that, you know, was positive, you know, all the positive things that I was doing for my life and just kind of became a stoner. And, um, and, you know, I know a lot of kids who were potheads in high school, you know, that I'm friends with that are more successful than I today. So I'm not, you know, trashing them at all.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Gosh, even then it tore me up, you know, because I just wasn't ready to stop. And I didn't know, like, you know, I didn't want to cause this pain and suffering that my parents were feeling. And so I drowned it out with just more use and, you know, to try to... You can see how that happens.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
2016 how long did it take to get back your equilibrium for your brain to start functioning as it had before you started using opioids um honestly i don't know that it will it it has ever gotten back to where it was before but i think that it took about i would say like
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
nine months to a year to like get like the all like to get the fog out and like you know have like because like my memory was shot just everything was like depleted and so in order to get you know to get those receptors and everything firing again to get my brain back to where it needed to be yeah i just um it was hard uh what are the long-term longer-term effects
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I would say, I'd say memory loss is definitely a thing. Equilibrium, like I have a very bad equilibrium, like people think I'm drunk sometimes because I'll like stumble, but it's just like, no, I'm just, yeah, my equilibrium is off. And I mean, obviously, you know, long term, like things like anxiety, you know, you know, it's ironic because a lot of people use anxiety.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
heroin to treat their anxiety and um but it causes you know again it's the rebound effect um and uh so yeah anxiety depression um just yeah a myriad of i have known you know people addicted to opioids and have heard that it affects your ability to feel happiness once you're off it Yeah, I would say that. Yeah, I didn't.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I always and I, you know, and even to this day, like, have this kind of sense sometimes of like imposter syndrome. Like, I like, you know, you know, for example, like getting a job in Congress working for Matt Gaetz and having Matt Gaetz compliment me and tell me and say all these nice things about me. It's like. I don't feel like I deserve this praise, you know?
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I mean, sure, I'm a, like, I'm a decent person. But yeah, it's like, it took me a while to just understand that, like, yeah, I am worthy of these. I have achieved a lot. I have been, you know, sure, I've done a lot of bad things, but I've done everything I can to try to, you know, repair the damage that I caused. And so, like, so no, I deserve, you know, it's just, it's hard to...
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
force yourself to, you know, accept like, yeah, you're like, you're doing well. Like just be, yes, you were, you were as bad as it could get, but you've turned it around. And like, you know, I was, I was kind of nervous about this interview, but then I was like, and I was talking to my dad and he's like, Chris, you stopped using heroin. you can do an interview. That's true. Yeah.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
But I mean, then what happened was it progressed to the, cause I was in, you know, advanced placement classes. So I was in like algebra two as a sophomore where, you know, I was, it was mostly juniors and seniors in the class. And so I started hanging out with the juniors and seniors and they were doing, uh, It's called oxymorphone or opana.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And I mean, yeah, you know, it was, um, and again, like I go back to the intrinsic motivation. It's just so important to want to level up in life. And I think that like, you know, I kind of compare it to like the whole body positivity movement. It's like, yeah, you're 40 pounds. And I'm not talking about people with like medical issues, but like you're 40 pounds overweight. No, you're perfect.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Just the way you are. It's like, no, put the donut down, go to the gym. Like, Stop coddling people who have a food addiction.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah. I mean, it seems so.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah. Sinister. It is sinister.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And, you know, that's why, you know, like, you know, you see all these like Victoria's Secret plus size, you know, it's like and again, you shouldn't you shouldn't do you shouldn't want to better yourself, you know, for societal acceptance, but for your own sense of, you know, happiness and well-being and purpose, because you talk to any person who's overweight, you know, and like, again, without medical conditions, like obviously they're going to say, yes, I would prefer to be prefer to lose a few pounds.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I mean. I would assume. I've never talked to every obese, I haven't talked to every obese person on the planet, but the ones that I have talked to, yeah, I would like. Well, they're tormented by it, of course.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And, and, and, and, and yeah, and like Victoria's Secret and these other places trying to tell them, oh yeah, you're perfectly fine. Keep doing what you're doing. Don't change anything. No, it's, it's evil, obviously.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Big Pharma. Yeah, I think.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Absolutely. Big Pharma is the closest thing to like, you know, like if you just want to talk about pure evil, like getting into the realm of demonically sick. Big Pharma is, I think, the prime example what they've done to this country.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Thank you. I appreciate it, Tucker.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
They were snorting that, taking Xanax, pills, stuff like that. And my stoner buddies... Where were they getting the pills? So they were getting them – there was pretty much – we had like one source and he was a guy that just lived down the street in an apartment complex. It's always a guy in an apartment complex, isn't it? Yeah, for sure.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And he – his grandmother was getting prescription – getting these prescription drugs and just had like – a boatload of them so you know he would sell them for 60 bucks a pop um and you know we would buy them uh But eventually, you know, that it becomes too expensive. The pill habit becomes too expensive. And that's why so many people transition to heroin.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
But, you know, even my stoner friends were like, hey, you should like you should try to steer clear of those guys over there. And I'm like, OK, yeah, I'm going to take your heaping loads of moral condemnation stoner. But but in reality, it's like when the potheads are telling you that to stay away from these kids, you know, they're bad. No, no, that's right. Like, yeah.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
And so, you know, of course, you know, my. again, that low self-esteem, that desire to fit in, started using pills and opiates in particular, they took away that feeling of that, like that low self-worth. I felt I was confident. I, you know, I felt great at the beginning, in the beginning, in the very early stages of my addiction. So like the first, you know, two, three months. And I had a job.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I was a telemarketer at a golf club selling quote-unquote custom made made clubs they're literally made in a warehouse underneath the call center by illegals and they're it was either graphite or steel and they might uh give you extra grips on the clubs that's the extent of the customization yeah but comparable to the tailor-made r11 yes okay yeah right
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah. And, you know, go in the car, do a line of Opana and come back in and it's just like, oh my gosh, you know, I have more confidence and I'm pushing harder on the sales and things like that. And my sales numbers are going up. So, I'm like… Why would I stop when this is like, I feel great about myself. I'm performing better at work.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
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.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
So, you know, I saw it as like, there's like, there's no downside until. Totally fair question.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah. And I think, you know, it to an extent it can, but that is short lived. It is not, you know, it's temporary because especially with opiates, they again, they what they do, they literally they erode your soul and you're eventually going to run out of money and you're going to have to get desperate.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah. And, and it kind of just progressed. Um, you know, I was like doing like, you know, one, one pill, 140 milligram pill every couple of days to two every couple of days to, you know, and just going up and up and the cost was getting too expensive.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You, you, you quickly develop a tolerance and, uh, Yeah. And you just need more and more to get to that because you're always chasing that first high. You know, you're never going to get it again. But that's what like, you know, the chasing the dragon. You're always trying to get to that level, but you're never going to get there. Right.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
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.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, no, it's, and, and you, you, you're so desperate to try to get back there. And, and that kind of, you know, the whole like, you know, addiction makes you insane. It's like, you know, you're never really going to get back there, but you're still trying. And, uh,
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah. I mean, you know, like the definition of insanity, trying things over and over again, expecting the different result, especially when you get into the point where you're like you're trying to get sober and like, OK, yeah, this hasn't worked 15 times. Maybe it'll work the 16th. Why? And so, but yeah, so I was, yeah, so it progressed very quickly.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, 10th grade. Yeah. And progressed within, I don't know, maybe like two, three months to buying heroin up in, you know, South Los Angeles. And what was that like? Wild, dude. So, you know, basically what happened was we met this guy. I think he was at like the continuation school down the street from our high school. And what's continuation school?
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
It's like basically if you get like booted out of, you know, a regular high school, it's kind of like. It's kind of like a way to get a diploma without having to get a GED. But like it's like kind of like a – it's like a bootleg diploma.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Yeah, yeah. For sure. For sure. Yeah. I mean they even like – even though there was like mostly kids under the age of 18, they had a little smoking section at the school. It was hilarious. I grew up with that. Yeah. And I, yeah, I mean, I'm still a nicotine fiend. I vape, but I quit smoking cigarettes.
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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
I was like, you know, I, and I was honestly, I was pretty impressed with myself that I was able to do that because that was almost, I don't want to say almost as hard, but very difficult. And, you know, trying to get rid of that addiction, you know, compared to my opiate addiction, but, you know, just.