May 29, 2026 · 53 min · 10 segments
Chad Roberts joins *The Redemption Project* for a Season 2 Redemption Story about childhood brokenness, addiction, crime, incarceration, faith, treatment and what it means to become the kind of man he…
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So, so you started selling, you went from weed to pills, and then kind of what was the evolution? What happened there?
That was fun for a little while, 'cause I had a little group of guys that we just hung out and we did, you know, it was just something we done.
You know? And then it just, I got worse in it and got deeper in it and started getting more and doing more and to heck, I...
Then I went to, I came in one night, I think I was probably 17, and I came in and my dad had some, a couple of lines chopped out that was white powdery stuff.
I asked him, "Is it meth?" And at that time, meth wasn't like the stuff this day and time.
But, um, that was something they kind of kept from me a little bit till that night.
And I came in and I asked him, I said, "Is that meth?" He said, "Yeah, you want to try it?" And I said, "I don't know how." And I remember him telling me, you know, "Just close off one side of your nostril and snort it and go from there." And I did it, and man, instantly felt like a totally different person.
And I knew I'd messed up, you know, it was bad, 'cause I liked it way too much.
And, uh, I remember one of them held my arm while the other one hit me with the needle, and from then on it was bad.
So, so you started selling, you went from weed to pills, and then kind of what was the evolution? What happened there?
That was fun for a little while, 'cause I had a little group of guys that we just hung out and we did, you know, it was just something we done.
You know? And then it just, I got worse in it and got deeper in it and started getting more and doing more and to heck, I...
Then I went to, I came in one night, I think I was probably 17, and I came in and my dad had some, a couple of lines chopped out that was white powdery stuff.
I asked him, "Is it meth?" And at that time, meth wasn't like the stuff this day and time.
But, um, that was something they kind of kept from me a little bit till that night.
And I came in and I asked him, I said, "Is that meth?" He said, "Yeah, you want to try it?" And I said, "I don't know how." And I remember him telling me, you know, "Just close off one side of your nostril and snort it and go from there." And I did it, and man, instantly felt like a totally different person.
And I knew I'd messed up, you know, it was bad, 'cause I liked it way too much.
And, uh, I remember one of them held my arm while the other one hit me with the needle, and from then on it was bad.
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