“I’ve done this one day at a time, and for anyone out there struggling YOU CAN TOO.”
In his 2021 memoir, co-authored by fellow actor Donal Logue, titled “Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood,” the actor detailed his battle with staying sober after growing up in an abusive household in Los Angeles, leading him to fall into a life of crime in his younger years before finding God and acting, the “Machete” actor told the outlet during the interview upon the book’s release.
Trejo has his on-screen character “Machete” in the 2002 film “Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams.”Trejo says that his career wouldn’t be close to what it’s become if he had not become sober.During a prison riot while incarcerated at Soledad Prison in California in 1968, the actor was isolated in solitary confinement after he hit a guard in the head with a rock and faced the death penalty for attempted murder.
“I didn’t think turning me on to marijuana was abuse when I was 8. I thought it was sharing. It was a form of abuse. I didn’t know,” the actor shared. “So when you finally start realizing, ‘Wait a minute man, this is not right,’ that’s when the healing really begins.”
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