"I can't believe I was ever in Los Angeles. It was LA put me on drugs," he says. "When I saw the spires of Los Angeles in the rear view mirror, I felt this tremendous relief" He is now living in a safe house and has written more than 1,000 pages so far for his book.
This week your host tries to break through to the other side using the art of John Singer Sargent as a… jumping off point. Also we get an update from our corespondent Peter Choyce. When we last heard from Peter (in “admissions of defeat”) he was heading to rehab, he is now free and living in the woods in North Carolina.