Name: Bubba Sparxxx Opens Up About Opioid Addiction
Uploaded: 2022-11-29T00:14:46.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bubba Sparxxx Opens Up About Opioid Addiction' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-11-29. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bubba Sparxxx Opens Up About Opioid Addiction' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-11-29. Transcript available.

I was a young country motherfucker with millions of dollars and pretty much
whatever you could have been in a budding, a spawning drug addict.
And you know what I'm saying? And just a kid, man, that just, you know, I just
loved life at that time, though.
You know what I'm saying?
When did you start to realize that you feel like you had like some addiction
issues?
I was, well, you know, I pretty much just kind of like partied, you know what I'm
saying?
It's like then I was in a snowmobile accident, ice fishing in Canada.
It was like, you know, real fucked up.
And I got prescribed like, I mean, I had dabbled with like, you know, popping a
lower tab or something, you know, not to mention specific drugs, but you know
what I'm saying?
No, it's fine, man.
I took some somas one time and I drove into a driveway and there wasn't a
driveway.
Hey, them somas ain't no joke, boy.
Flex for real and soma.
Dude, I was on tour with Blink-182.
Shout out to what Trav, Trav Parker.
And I had been prescribed Percocets for about six months and then they just cut
them cold turkey.
You know, I knew nothing about addiction or, you know, or physical dependence
or withdrawals, dope scene.
I knew nothing about shit.
Then shit about shit, I knew shit about shit.
And I had run out and I just think I'm just done with that, you know what I'm
saying?
And I remember I had this process, you know what I'm saying?
The bus would get into wherever we were going like that morning and I would go
in the hotel and I would sleep till like three o'clock.
I would get up slowly, you know what I'm saying?
I'd take a shower and stuff.
And then before I would leave the hotel at like five o'clock, I would take,
like I think I would take two pills and then like four shots of Patron.
And that would get me like in the go be me in public and, you know, start angling
towards showtime, you know.
And I remember I didn't, I just didn't have the pills and I laid down trying to
go to sleep like normal.
30 minutes later, I wake up sweating, just like feeling inside out.
I'm like, oh shit, I'm sick.
This is crazy.
Like, like I think I'm just sick, like cold or flu or something.
And I'm like, oh man, and I try to lay back down.
I maybe take some cold medicine, lay back down, can't, can't sleep.
And I'm like, man, what is wrong?
It's a unique feeling.
This is like a, I've never felt this exact type of thing before.
And then it hit me.
Damn, it's because I ain't got no pills.
It's like, damn, am I addicted to these things?
Like what?
And I remember I talked to somebody, like probably my manager or somebody and
was like, you think I'm addicted to them?
He's like, I don't know, maybe so.
You know, were you taking more of them than you were supposed to?
And I was like, yeah, I mean, of course.
I had known some, some addicts, you know what I'm saying?
Some drunks, a lot of drunks, you know what I'm saying?
That's all they used to call them, really?
Yeah, right.
And, but for me, I just never, nobody ever thinks it's going to, it could
happen to them until it does.
But I just remember being like, damn, I'm addicted to these motherfuckers.
But I was moving so fast, I said, you know, when I get to a stopping point, you
know, a resting like area, I'll take care of it and get on off of them.
But for now, I just need to buy them on the street, you know what I'm saying?
So I was buying them on the street.
And sure, story long, that was like in 2004, I think.
And then I ended up finally going to rehab, like pretty much at the peak of
Miss New Booty.
You know what I'm saying, of that, I did not enjoy that.
You know, you were asking, did I enjoy the, when I first came into the game,
the Ugly, when Ugly was my first number, first ever release as far as a single
and my first number one record.
And, and that was a great time.
But the Miss New Booty time, man, it was just trying to be in places, traveling
around, running out of pills, just having to white knuckle it, be tough, you
know what I'm saying?
Like, and get through, you know, just big shit, you know what I mean?
And things that I should have, you know, I should have been enjoying, you know
what I'm saying?
It was a huge record, you know, and just so many blessings came from it, you
know?
But my, my perception at that time was, was really fucked, you know what I'm
saying?
But I remember, I had like, half a million dollars worth of shows, um, over
like a two month period.
And I told my manager, Bobby, I was like, man, I gotta go.
You know what I'm saying?
I said, I'm not, I can't do it anymore, man.
I said, I'm about to get on, about to check out of here or something.
I don't know what's, and, um.
Like, how was it, did it get pretty, like, because I've had, like, I've had
some times where I probably went to some strange, you know, I've been in some
strange places trying to get some cocaine.
You know what it was for me?
Getting chumped by people.
Like, meaning, like, I got the number one song in the world at this time.
And these motherfuckers got me sitting in this bowling alley for six hours.
Yeah.
And it just, I couldn't take it anymore, you know what I'm saying?
It was just like, man, I can't be a punk-ass motherfucker but so long, you know
what I'm saying?
Like, that's just the way I'm, the way my account is set up.
Oh, I want to do what I, that's hilarious, the way my account is set up.
I want to do what I want to do, man.
That's all, I've always been that way.
Have you always been that way?
But especially just to know that somebody, they on the phone laughing to their
homeboys, talking about, man, I got, but, but, but, man, I got him sitting up
here at this bowling alley.
Man, this shit crazy, you know, that kind of shit.
And I'm just like.
Do you mean waiting for drugs?
Yeah, I'm just sitting there like, they're like, give you the money, and then
they, they're going to ride up, whatever.
And I'm sitting there for six hours on a Saturday and probably missing some
shit that I'm supposed to be, you know what I mean?
And just, just, I, you know, I just couldn't, I couldn't do it anymore, you
know what I'm saying?
And then just tired of being dope sick, man, like, you know, that was, that was
the deal at that time, you know what I'm saying, was the opiates, you know what
I'm saying?
And, you know, I, I don't go down the same street, you know what I'm saying,
like, like multiple times very often, you know what I'm saying, as far as that
goes.
But I, I would have never, at that time, I could have never seen there being a
day, a six hour period where I didn't use like some type of opiate at that time.
And I thought I, I would never be able to get beyond that, you know, and I, and
I did, you know, and I, Suboxone's a part of my journey, you know what I'm
saying?
Like I said, that's the only way I was able to set, to stop and, uh, and stay
stopped as far as, and people say like, you just traded one addiction for
another.
Yes and no, because the difference is if I'm out here taking, uh, Roxie's and Oxycontin
and whatever else, especially this fentanyl world that's, that's, that's, uh,
that's going down out here now.
That's, that's a whole different level, but, um, but when you take Suboxone,
you can take four milligrams a day.
This is just my experience now, you know what I'm saying?
I'm not the judge, jury, and executioner on, on anything, you know what I'm
saying?
My opinion, in 250, I'll get you Coca-Cola.
You know, I'm, I'm a thinker, you know what I'm saying?
That can be, that can be a big fucking, uh, hindrance to, to recovery.
When you're creative, you create a lot of ways you can figure shit out yourself.
Your tolerance doesn't go up on the Suboxone.
You can take the same amount and it's never gonna, your tolerance is never
gonna, like, you know, force you to take more where, whereas, you know, when,
when you're taking the other stuff, like, your tolerance is just going to
slowly build and build.
I've always wanted to do methadone.
I've never done it.
Yeah, I, I've taken some methadone, but I, not as like a solution, but just as
a, that's all you got.
I've been in and out of the program for maybe six years, right?
Six years.
I've been in and out since 2007.
So what's that, 15?
And I never thought I had this problem.
I thought everything was pretty normal in my life, you know, and it came on
really later in my, you know, I thought for me, but when people came in with opiate
addiction, I always thought to me, it seemed like you had people that were real
alcoholics that were in there.
But then some people just got so, like, somebody goes in because they hurt
their bag.
That's not a person that's, and then they get, I mean, people were getting so
addicted to opiate.
But your mind doesn't know the difference is the thing.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, it's just like, I know people, my old sponsor, shout out to Steven K down
on the grains, but he, uh, he was like, I ain't taking nothing.
He said, I don't care what happens to me.
I ain't taking no pain medication.
He said, cause my brain's not going to know the difference.
You know what I'm saying?
When that shit gets in my system, it's going to do what it does.
You know what I'm saying?
Regardless of the reason, being righteous or, or, you know, it being prescribed
by a doctor or anything like that.
Hope you enjoyed that video and you can watch another and you can watch this
one.
You can watch this one.
Different options, different choices.
Some guy just brings you a one option, not this guy, two options.
Watch one, this one or this one.
Thank you.