It's like, sure, parties are great from 8:00 to 9:30. Getting close to twelve, and you'll see some guy says, (drunk voice) 'I told you you're a bitch!' And some girl going, (unintelligible drunken gibberish), and I just watch the chaos, you know? That's what happens. I watch them for a little while, and then 10:30, 11:30 comes along.

At 9:30, I love to watch the girls when they get there at 9:30 or 10:00, fashionably late, and they're just all dressed up and everything. You just have to dial in the internal one.ĭanny Trejo: It's funny, but what you just said, like, when I go to a Hollywood party and everyone's doing whatever, right. It was funny, because I live up in Oregon in this small town, and people are like, 'All you Hollywood people and all your drugs!' And I'm like, 'Oh, there's no meth problem in this town?' And they're like, 'Oh my God, this town is all meth'd out, there's zombies everywhere!' You can't change the external circumstances. If you're at Gio's Mobile Home Park on the north side of El Centro, California, people are getting wasted.

Screen Rant: Before we jump in, maybe this is heavy if anything's inappropriate, I don't want to be pressing any boundaries or anything, but can you talk a little about being at these Hollywood parties, where everyone can get half cut for free, and having the responsibility to maintain your sobriety?ĭonal Logue: It doesn't matter. In this sprawling conversation, they share stories of addiction, adversity, and triumph, and how they were able to make it through to the other side and become better, stronger, healthier men. While promoting the release of Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood, Danny Trejo and Donal Logue sat down together to speak to Screen Rant about the book and about their sober lifestyle, and how macho posturing is a far cry from the true masculinity that comes with walking a righteous path. Related: Planet Terror Is The Best Half Of Grindhouse (Not Death Proof) As of this writing, Trejo has been clean and sober for 52 years, and he's helped countless others achieve sobriety and improve their lives. Eventually, he maintained his sobriety and became a drug counselor more than a decade before he took his first Hollywood acting gig. He was twelve years old when he first took heroin, and he spent too much of his youth in prison for an endless variety of felonies. Trejo's book pulls no punches when it comes to his past.

Redemption by Danny Dufour