Addiction, Accountability, and the Power of DNA with Bob Forrest

**Dr. Drew** (0:10)
Hey, everybody, welcome to the podcast. Appreciate y'all being here. Today is my distinct pleasure to bring my old friend and colleague back, the one and only Bob Forrest. Yeah, Bob.

**Bob Forrest** (0:18)
Oh my God, I've been looking forward to this for two months. You're hard to book. He had to book too much months in advance to talk to Dr. Drew.

**Dr. Drew** (0:25)
The good news is we're so far behind now that this will go right to air.
This will be... We're booking them like three months ahead. So anyway, here we are. So I don't know where to start. Well, how you been? What's going on? What's the latest? We got a lot to catch up on.

**Bob Forrest** (0:44)
Just so much. Good stuff, bad stuff. That's the thing. I don't know about your life, but I just thought once you get to be like past 60, everything slows down. It doesn't slow down. You got grown adult kids that are mad at you. I got kids that are mad at me. I got a video shoot going on in my house because my son is a video star. It's crazy. Remember Elvis was born when we were doing Celebrity Rehab, I think, 2010 And now he's 14 and he's just, they're shooting a video in the kitchen right now.

**Dr. Drew** (1:23)
My God. So he does, what kind of, is he an influencer?

**Bob Forrest** (1:27)
He's a musician, it's a rock video, but it's got a storyline to it and whatever.

**Dr. Drew** (1:32)
He's a talented young man.

**Bob Forrest** (1:34)
He really is. And it's hard to guide somebody that, and I know you know this, we talk about parenting since we've known each other. So hard to guide someone that you know is so uniquely talented.
You have to be a dad and you have to yell at him and say, clean your room, but you also have to respect and kind of guide and protect his talent. I mean, I've had my story. I'm a musician. Most of my friends are musicians. I've had some of the most successful musicians in the world come to my house and play with him and go, I wasn't like that at that age. I mean, it's like savant. It's like savant level how he is about music.

**Dr. Drew** (2:21)
I remember when he was like in seventh grade and was going up to the high school stuff.

**Bob Forrest** (2:25)
Yeah, he plays at the high school version. And it's just now he's writing his own. Like, Drew, he wrote a song about me and Chrissy, my wife, about the troubles we've had the last couple of years because she relapsed. It made us both cry. It was so profound. So I was like, so anyways, I've got that going on. Then I got Elijah, my older son had my grandson Isaiah, and I got Sydney and Idris, and it's just constant kids. And then plus battling my wife's addiction. You know, I'm codependent, whatever you want to call it. I knew that we would touch on this. I thought I'd just bring it up.
In this day and age, Drew, there are so many choices to make as what a pathway to sobriety is. It's insane. It's just stupid.

**Dr. Drew** (3:16)
Yeah. So what do you think? What are you thinking? So what do we do?

**Bob Forrest** (3:20)
I do think that obviously harm reduction works if people are gonna stick to it. But then they mix in psychiatry and baby anxiety, and it's just like, I always say, used to be you were on two drugs, you went to a rehab, you came out on three drugs. Now, you're on one drug, you come out of rehab, you're on five drugs, and you're a victim, and you're on a replacement therapy. I don't know if it's better. You know what I mean? It's just so fucking dangerous out there. People have to do something, right?

**Dr. Drew** (4:04)
Well, God, I'm getting overwhelmed thinking about this. So there's no doubt.

**Bob Forrest** (4:09)
Here's what happened. So and we've talked about, you know, every doctor you and I know, right? Pocco, Sharp, and new doctors that we've come in contact with. There's no doubt she had severe postpartum with Idris, the second kid that we didn't expect. First thing, she was back to work in like three months. Like, no problem.
No problem. I got it. And so I'm expecting that to happen again. That didn't happen again, Drew. And what is that? What is postpartum? Because I just act like I know, but it was noticeable. She wasn't even the same person.