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Chris Cella: Opioids, Robbing the Mafia, Burning Down the Entourage House, and How God Saved Him
Fri, 02 May 2025
Like so many other Americans, Chris Cella fell out of the middle class and became an opioid addict. Here’s how he came back. (00:00): Introduction (02:00) Cella’s Opioid Addiction (09:00): Gateway Drugs Are a Real Concern (24:57) Burning Down the Entourage House (39:25) What It’s Really Like in Rehab Paid partnerships with: Identity Guard: Get a 30-day free trial and over 60% off when you sign up a https://IdentityGuard.com/Tucker Tecovas: Get 10% off at tecovas.com/tucker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What led to Chris Cella's opioid addiction?
Making me tense, man. Just telling me this story.
And he had girls in his halfway houses that he was giving heroin, giving crack and pimping them out and then sending them back to treatment. where they would ultimately fail their drug test and have to go to detox. And guess who gets a kickback from the detox center? No way. It's a revolving door of suffering and just pain for the addict. But they're making money at every stop. This is disgusting.
And then she pulls out a handgun. And she's like, what the are you doing in my house? My kids are in there. And I'm like, oh my God, you have kids? If you have your kids sleeping in there, you're kind of a shitty mom. So you insult the lady with the gun pointed at you.
Yes, because, because. You got balls, I'll say that. Thanks for doing this, Chris. How long were you addicted to opioids?
So I was addicted to opioids from the age of 15 to 23, kind of on and off, you know, in and out of rehab for those eight years. But yeah.
15 to 23. How did you grow up?
So I grew up in, I was born in Dallas, grew up in South Orange County, moved there when I was five, kind of bounced around, but all in kind of relatively the same area. Southern California. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Southern California, Orange County. And my sister or my family, you know, addiction kind of just runs in my family.
As it does many.
Yeah. Right. You know, I do believe it is. There is a genetic component to, you know, kind of the addictive personality. You know, absolutely. A hundred percent.
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Chapter 2: What happened when Chris burned down the Entourage house?
And so, you know, she had these multiple surgeries that only exacerbated the issue.
A neck injury?
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.
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.
I'm sorry to laugh.
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.
So she's got three kids. She's married to a general counsel of a company. She lives in Southern California. She's a distance runner. All of a sudden she's on fentanyl.
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.
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.
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Chapter 3: What do rehab experiences really look like?
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
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?
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.
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,
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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Chapter 4: How did Chris Cella go from addiction to recovery?
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.
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.
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.
I've been to those apartment complexes.
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.
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.
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.
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
So, you're selling custom, faux custom-made golf clubs from a call center.
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Chapter 5: What consequences did Chris face for his addiction?
No, I think it's. Yeah. I mean, I think every childhood weed smoker remembers that first time when you just like burst into laughter hysterically with your buddies. And it's like the funnest, funniest thing that's ever happened in your life. And it's like it's it is fun. I mean, that's truly fun. but that doesn't ever happen again.
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,
So addiction makes you insane. That is true.
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.
So you're in like 10th grade at this point?
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?
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.
Nice. So some of the kids who've had a bumpy road are in the continuation school.
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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Chapter 6: How did Chris's family deal with his addiction?
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Okay, so 10th grade, all of a sudden you go from like doing like bumps of some ground up Oxy derivative pill at the golf sales place to driving to South Los Angeles. I'm sorry, I stepped on your story. You meet this kid from the continuation school and he's your heroin connection.
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