Betty Ford Center
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Sep 29, 2026
Bob CostasGUEST
I wasn't as good as I used to be, but it would be more helpful if you understood what I used to be, if you had some kind of contact.
Molly KnightHOST
Well, Bob, I wanted to ask you about something I think is one of the finest pieces of sports journalism I've ever seen, that you did your interview with Mickey Mantle when he came out of the Betty Ford Clinic, and it was just right after his son died.
Molly KnightHOST
And you were, I mean, I watched it last night and I cried.
Molly KnightHOST
Oh,
Bob CostasGUEST
And so I had come to know Mickey very well over the years.
Bob CostasGUEST
And when he came out of, and I'd interviewed him a number of times, mostly baseball related and little anecdotes, and he was a very good storyteller.
Bob CostasGUEST
When he came out of the Betty Ford Clinic, he had essentially two choices.
Bob CostasGUEST
I'm sure a lot of people wanted to interview him, but it came down to two.
Rod PedersenHOST
a few times, well, probably more than a few, but I also work as a mental health and addiction recovery coach.
Rod PedersenHOST
And the reason I see the parallels here is that Hazelden Betty Ford Center offered me a scholarship full scholarship to go through their masters of addiction studies program and they said when it's done you can have your pick of any job anywhere in america at hazelden betty ford center and to be honest at that time i was living in canada had really no interest to leave and i said can i do this remotely it was before covid and they're like no you got to come to our minneapolis campus uh so that's a no from me dog And then, so I went and I'm going and doing my own thing and opening my own practice and doing all the rest.
Rod PedersenHOST
And there actually is another parallel to that too.
Rod PedersenHOST
But I'm just saying, I wonder if the NFL bootcamp runs the exact same way.
David BegnaudHOST
Um, but you were dealing with addiction at the height of your career.
David BegnaudHOST
So you actually were at the Betty Ford Center when you learned that you were nominated for the Oscar.
David BegnaudHOST
Isn't that right?
Marlee MatlinGUEST
It just so happened [laughs] that I learned about my nomination right in the middle of rehab.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
In the late 1960s, rehab, as we know it today, did not exist, especially for rock stars.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
There was no Betty Ford Center, and addiction was treated as a moral failing or a criminal matter rather than a medical one.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
This historical vacuum allowed addiction to reach its lethal apex precisely when these artists reached the peak of their financial and social freedom.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
So, why does the 27 Club conspiracy endure if the math doesn't support it? Well, there's a few reasons.
Mike SmithGUEST
Wow.
Mike SmithGUEST
And he got a trip to the Betty Ford Clinic.
Matt LedbetterHOST
So it's funny.
Matt LedbetterHOST
When he passed.
Rich GilgallonHOST
Right.
Rich GilgallonHOST
Uh, you know, the, uh, Eisenhower complex, uh, the Betty Ford center, the, uh, uh, there's the, uh, The Barbara Sinatra Children's Center.
Rich GilgallonHOST
Oh, yeah, that's
David MulsoHOST
right.
Howard FarranHOST
And you might be thinking, oh, were they doing drugs or alcohol? No, not even that.
Howard FarranHOST
If you do drugs or alcohol, they send you to the Betty Ford Center and you got to pee in a cup for five years.
Howard FarranHOST
It's not even that.
Howard FarranHOST
You know what you have to do to get your license taken away? I don't know, just the short list.
speaker_15NARRATOR
But Mickey finally faced his drinking problem head on.
speaker_15NARRATOR
He entered the Betty Ford Clinic for treatment in 1993.
speaker_15NARRATOR
But the changes came too late to reverse the damage he had done to his liver.
speaker_15NARRATOR
In June, he underwent a liver transplant to stay alive.
Keith OlbermannHOST
Mantle went public in May of 1994 about alcoholism, about his feelings of failure and fear and of having let everyone down.
Keith OlbermannHOST
A month in the Betty Ford Clinic and the words of a doctor had changed and seemingly saved his life.
Mickey MantleSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He said, I'm not going to lie to you.
Mickey MantleSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The next drink you have might be your last.
Stevie NicksSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If you build your house, then please call me home.
Brad PageHOST
In 1986, when Stevie checked into the Betty Ford Clinic to deal with her cocaine addiction, she signed in using the alias Sarah.
Brad PageHOST
She would later write a song called Welcome to the Room, Sarah about that experience.
Brad PageHOST
That song's on the Tango in the Night album.
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