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BY SOME MIRACLE I MADE IT OUT OF THERE By: Tom Sizemore
Atria
April 2013
On Sale: April 9, 2013
240 pages ISBN: 1451681674 EAN: 9781451681673 Kindle: B008J2GDAC Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Tom Sizemore has been called many things. Brilliant. Brutal. Fiercely talented. Angry. Drug addicted. In reality, heβs all of them. Heβs a survivor of the Detroit ghetto, the fifty-year-old father of twin boys, and a veteran of dozens of movies. Heβs also now sober, after his addiction took his life just about as far down as any human being could go. Through screen-stealing performances in the 1990s movies True Romance, Heat, and Natural Born Killers, Sizemore was so in demand that even when it was widely known that he had a drug problem, directors like Steven Spielberg were offering him roles and begging him to stay sober for them. Robert De Niro personally recruited him for the role of Michael Cheritto in Heat after asking him to dinner and expressing his admiration. Jack Nicholson, Robert Downey, Jr., and Johnny Depp each went out of their way to befriend him. But this same man went from romancing Elizabeth Hurley and Juliette Lewis to being accused of domestic violence by the worldβs most famous madam, and moved from a Beverly Hills mansion to a solitary-confinement cell at Chino State Prison and later a desolate, abandoned cabin in a town best known for being where Charles Manson hid Rosemary LaBiancaβs wallet. For years, Sizemoreβs days were filled with overdoses, suicide attempts, and homelessness. The simple fact is that people donβt come back from where Tom Sizemore landedβyet miraculously, he did. By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There is a harrowing journey into the heart of addiction, told in riveting and often shocking detailβa terrifying cautionary tale for anyone whoβs peered over the abyss of drug abuse. By turns gritty and heartbreaking, it is also one manβs look at a particular moment in entertainment historyβa window into the drug-fueled spotlight that sent Robert Downey, Jr., to jail and killed River Phoenix, Heath Ledger, and Chris Farley and many others far before their time.
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