Shaun Weissis finding some humor in his past struggles with drug addiction.
Weiss, who rose to fame in the ’90s as he played goalie Greg Goldberg inTheMighty Ducksmovies, recently performed a stand-up comedy set at the Mic Drop Comedy Club in San Diego.
“I don’t know if you saw that: child actor arrested for burglary,” Weiss is shown saying in the video. “I was very disappointed in myself… I didn’t even wear a disguise. What the hell? Come on, Goldberg, you can do better than that.”
“I’ll tell you, they’re not using any Instagram filters down there at the station,” Weiss joked about amug shot taken after his Jan. 2020 arrestfor burglary. “This photo was rough. You know you look bad when your drug dealer doesn’t want to be seen in public with you. That’s when you should reassess things.”
Weiss, who marked three years of sobriety in a Jan. 25Instagrampost, has been performing stand-up comedy in recent weeks and appears to be preparing for aone-week touracross much of the country in June.
The actor explained during his stand-up set that he turned to stealing and petty theft to support his drug addiction and joked that “you don’t have a drug problem until you run out of money, right?”
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Weissworked his way back into the acting worldin the last year with the recently-released movieJesus Revolution. Back in September, the actor said that it is"hard to see" images of himself while he struggled with addictionin an interview withAddiction Talkpublished onYouTube. During that interview, he said he would steal $1,000 worth of electronics each day to feed his addiction prior to maintaining a sober lifestyle.
“It made me an adrenaline junkie,” he told the interviewer of his time as a child star in Disney’sMighty Ducksmovies. “Things were a lot more exciting for me than the average 13-year-old — taking trips and flying to places and being in movies.”
“So I was very addicted to the excitement of things, he added at the time. “And when that went away, I didn’t really know how to get that feeling. And I found that in drugs.”
If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, please contact the SAMHSA helpline at 1-800-662-HELP.
source: people.com
