


> reporter: those gun laws here in california include a ban on high-capacity magazines and universal background checks. > this sickness will be cured some day in this country or we will destroy ourselves in this country, as we do in too many communities on too many occasions over too many years. they say more than a hundred tips, pictures and pieces of video have come in but none of it answers the larger questions in a city that prides itself on community outreach and a state with the toughest gun laws in the nation. > reporter: trying to piece together what happened in a crime scene that spans several blocks, police have appealed to the public for help. The actor adds that he was so unwell from the trip that he binge drank at the airport just to be able to board the plane.Investigation. The cocaine he purchased was crystal meth, which he did anyway. While on a trip to Hawaii, the actor got into a car accident on the way to buy cocaine. Shepard explains that the lead up to the show was equally disastrous. "So I was banned from that show for some years, until I got sober and I got myself back on it and now I’ve been on it a bazillion times." I didn't know any of the stories," he remembers. After falling backward over a chair and breaking a coffee table, the actor meanders through an eight-minute interview. So, I'm just doing what I can to be funny out there and I am a mess." From the moment Shepard appears on the stage, something seems off about him. I can tell he's queuing me up for stories I've told, but I don't know any of the stories. "I show up on the show, I don't know what he's talking about. On the podcast, the 46-year-old actor says that he went through the pre-interview process while "blackout" drunk and was woken up in his hotel room 20 minutes before the taping. The moment in question is a 2004 interview on Conan, where the actor and comedian is so inebriated that he falls over, barely able to string together a comprehensible sentence.

In a new interview on the podcast The Pursuit of Healthiness, Dax Shepard opens up about a moment that he says was "the only career wreckage-y thing" he did. An addiction journey is rarely ever a straight line, but there is a power in sharing the moments where that journey curves in a difficult direction.
