has worked with them every step of the way. In and out of jail during the '60s, the Chicano actor served time in San Quentin State Prison for a number of drug offenses and armed robberies until he turned his life around.
Trejo will be presented the Vanguard Award by his son, Gilbert Trejo, who is seven years sober after a heroin addiction. Gilbert also went through the CRI-Help program, as did Trejo's daughter Danielle, who is going on eight years sober. The movie star credits CRI-Help for saving their lives. The 2019 Brett Harvey documentary just scratches the surface of Trejo's life. It also inspired him to dig deeper into his tumultuous past and write his first memoir,Co-written by Donal Logue and set to be released July 6, Trejo calls the book"an avenue to freedom" with never-before-heard stories about his abusive home.
"When I started getting into, 'Woe is me. Poor me, look at my life.' I can go down Skid Row and just start passing out socks or passing out dollar bills or anything," he says."You can always make yourself feel better, and you have to. When god sees fit to give you a good day, be sure you let him have his own way. Every morning I wake up, for me it's a good day. I'm 76 years old.
"Right now, I know very few families that addiction hasn't touched, and especially through this pandemic," he expresses."So many people were taking antidepressants or taking different kinds of pills, so we've had a whole influx of pill addicts. Because for a lot of people this was stressful."
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