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Every morning, i look in the mirror and I like the guy I see. My mother and God are the reasons for this.<\/p>\n

Every day, I give thanks for being alive, for having two children I love, for having a woman I love, a job I love. When someone asks how I\u2019m feeling, I usually say, \u201cSupercalifragilisticexpialidocious.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a comedian, an actor and a motivational speaker. I\u2019ve done street comedy, stand-up, television, movies. I\u2019m supposed to say funny stuff.<\/p>\n

Except now I mean it. That\u2019s also because of Momma and God.<\/p>\n

Seven years ago, I was a hard-core crack addict. I\u2019d smoke rock all night, then come home at 3:30 a.m., feeling crazy and exhausted. My wife would be in the bedroom, having fallen asleep waiting up for me. I\u2019d sit beside her feeling sick and guilty. Then I\u2019d go into the bathroom and smoke another rock. That\u2019s the life of a crackhead.<\/p>\n

I used crack for 23 years. But I was a functional addict. I worked, made money. I was successful. Everybody thought I was hilarious. Inside, though, I was a mess.<\/p>\n

How did I stop? They say addiction<\/a> runs in families. My dad was an alcoholic. He drank a fifth of booze a day and died of a heart attack when he was 51.<\/p>\n

Thanks be to God, recovery runs in families too. I never told my momma about my addiction, but she knew. Of course she knew. Momma always knows. More than anyone else, she inspired me. She loved me, prayed for me, never gave up on me. The rules she taught me growing up\u2014love God, be kind, respect yourself and others\u2014formed my foundation. I leaned on that foundation in recovery. Momma\u2019s love came from God. At last that love reached me and helped me get clean.<\/p>\n

Growing up, I never knew that my family and I were poor. When everyone around you is poor, you don\u2019t know what you don\u2019t have.<\/p>\n

I was raised in the Robert Taylor Homes, a 16-story public housing project on the South Side of Chicago. When we moved there in 1962, most families saw the projects as an improvement on the falling-apart places they came from. That\u2019s how it was for us. We were on an upward path.<\/p>\n

We would have stayed on that path if my dad hadn\u2019t drunk all the money he made. He was a tailor who could alter and press a suit to perfection. The minute he got paid, he took that money and bought a case full of booze. Whatever he didn\u2019t drink, he sold on Sundays when liquor stores were closed.<\/p>\n

Lucky for me and my four older brothers, Dad wasn\u2019t an angry drunk. He just got funny and sentimental and then passed out. He was always the life of the party, the guy everybody wanted to be around.<\/p>\n

He and Momma fought, but they agreed on how to raise kids. We had rules and were expected to follow them. Momma was a devout Catholic, and she prayed all the time.<\/p>\n

I loved my dad, but I swore I\u2019d never become a drunk like him. Though I always knew he loved us, I also felt the effects of his alcoholism every day. The instability. The fights with Momma. I wanted no part of that.<\/p>\n

Still, I was a lot like him. I was always the funny guy, a storyteller like my dad. In high school drama class, I realized you could make a whole audience laugh, not just your friends.<\/p>\n

A friend encouraged me to try comedy on the streets. I told him he was nuts\u2014until I saw how much money he made doing a routine on State Street. I gave it a try. People gave me money! For telling jokes!<\/p>\n

The first winter after I started doing street comedy, I noticed something. Snow and biting wind would keep my audience away. So I loaded up my stuff in my 1967 Buick LeSabre and headed out to Los Angeles, the show business capital, where it\u2019s summer all year long.<\/p>\n

I did comedy on the Venice Beach boardwalk. Right away I drew lots of tourists and locals. It was a diverse crowd, and my comedy tackled issues like racial prejudice. Word spread, and soon I was being dubbed the King of Venice Beach.<\/p>\n

Movie stars came to see me. So did producers. I got invited to audition for TV and films. My career took off.<\/p>\n

So did my party life. I\u2019d never become like Dad. I could handle a drink. I knew how to have fun with drugs.<\/p>\n

Then someone introduced me to cocaine. It was like electricity coursing through my body, giving me boundless energy and confidence. More of that, please!<\/p>\n

\u201cYou like that stuff?\u201d a friend of mine asked one day. \u201cThen you\u2019ll love this.\u201d He handed me a glass pipe that had a small white rock inside it. I held a lighter under the pipe and inhaled.<\/p>\n

Wham! <\/em>A cocaine high like I\u2019d never experienced. The high didn\u2019t last long.<\/p>\n

\u201cGive me another,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

And so it began. For a long time, I told myself I had everything under control. I only smoked rock at parties. I wasn\u2019t like those crazy crackheads on the street.<\/p>\n

In fact, I was an addict\u2014just like Dad. I didn\u2019t control crack. Crack controlled me. I found myself getting high in strange motel rooms with sketchy people just because they had rock. One time, I was in an alley buying drugs. I reached toward my pocket, and the dealer must have thought I had a gun. He pulled out a real gun and pointed it at me.<\/p>\n

\u201cGet out of this neighborhood,\u201d he said. I did. Fast.<\/p>\n

I told myself I wasn\u2019t a real addict because I still had a house, my wife had spending money, and I kept landing roles. But after I started turning up high for auditions, the roles dwindled. My wife gave up trying to make me quit. Eventually our marriage ended.<\/p>\n

Being an addict is exhausting. All you think about is getting high. Whenever I talked to Momma back in Chicago, I tried to make it sound like I had everything together. She knew otherwise. Mothers always know.<\/p>\n

Then she got breast cancer. I wanted to be sober for her. I was tired of living the way I did. I tried to quit. I just couldn\u2019t. The craving for that high was too intense.<\/p>\n

Momma died before I got sober. I was devastated. All my life, she\u2019d been my foundation. In her eyes, I saw myself as I really was.<\/p>\n

At last I broke down and contacted a group called Cocaine Anonymous, a 12-step program that\u2019s modeled after Alcoholics Anonymous. I got clean, had a serious relapse<\/a>, then got clean again. I\u2019ve been sober ever since\u2014seven years. What a gift.<\/p>\n

Many addicts don\u2019t stick with recovery. The odds were against me. I work in an industry where alcohol and drug use are common. I\u2019d been addicted a long time. And I am my father\u2019s son.<\/p>\n

I loved my dad. I don\u2019t want to make him sound one-dimensional or blame him for my addiction. But it\u2019s a fact that addiction runs in families. If I\u2019d known that earlier\u2014really known it, believed it, acted on it\u2014maybe I would have been more careful. Maybe I would have pushed away that glass pipe when it was offered to me.<\/p>\n

Like I said, recovery runs in families too. Even for those of us who have addiction in our genes, there is hope. The hope comes from God.<\/p>\n

For me, that hope was delivered through my momma\u2019s unwavering love. It was her love that raised me with a strong foundation. Her love in the prayers she prayed for me every day. Her love in the example she set and the inspiration she provided.<\/p>\n

Today I\u2019m traveling around the country doing a one-man play. It\u2019s a show with a message. And that message is: Through determination and hard work, you can overcome whatever challenges you face\u2014especially if you put God first. Right up there with your momma. (I think God will understand.)<\/p>\n

The show is called Michael Colyar\u2019s Momma. <\/em>That was her message to me. Now I\u2019m sharing it with the world.<\/p>\n

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