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"Why are you going around getting pissed all the time? You’ve never wanted for a thing! What have you ever wanted for?”
He just looked at me and said: “A father.”
I won’t forget that moment in a hurry. It was the first time I’d really had to face the cost of how I’d been living all those years — the cost to my son, who I loved so much, who I was so proud of, but who I’d never been there for. It was a terrible feeling. All I could say was: “Jack, I’m so sorry.”
Jack got sober after that. But I didn’t. "
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