Yeah.

It is broken people.

It's people struggling with, you know, sin or addiction or, you know, even Paul talking about the thorn in his side.

I'm like, if the Bible can do it, why aren't we as Christians doing it? Because I can relate to those people, those broken people in the Bible, but I can't, uh, relate to, you know, this woman that won't even, um, think twice about, you know, uh, you know, a very...

She had a very perfect, polished Christian, Christian, so to speak, life in a, um, Christian fiction novel.

So, um, and I will always give, uh, props to Francine Rivers.

She showed me in her writing that you can be gritty, and you can show sh- you know, grit with grace for faith.

Yeah.

So T.I., how do faith and addiction collide in real life, and what have you learned about grace through writing this story?

From personal experience, my loved one, from what we lived with her, she was, you know, she had a heart for God, and I know she was a believer.

She just...

She got a, had a knee injury, and it started from there.

And the doctor...

And this was back in the late '90s where they were handing out prescription drugs like candy in the doctor's office.

And, and it just escalated from there.

Yeah, we're friends.