Andrew Zimmern’s is much more than a television host. His drive and passion are based on a life philosophy that’s sure to inspire anyone willing to listen. This is the untold truth of the television host, restaurateur, producer, journalist, author, and food critic, Andrew Zimmern.

Anyone who’s worked in the restaurant industry knows late nights are part of the job. Sometimes the nights are filled with heavy drinking after a shift, and possible substance abuse. You’d never know it, but Andrew Zimmern succumbed to the worst of it years ago.

Even though Zimmern grew up privileged, he admits he never truly felt comfortable with himself, which led to his first experience with marijuana at age 13, while away at summer camp. He then started using alcohol as a coping mechanism to numb the intense emotions that came after his mother was hospitalized in a coma after a botched surgery. This soon led to, quote, “pills, cocaine, hallucinogens.” Once he reached college, he, quote, “had already experimented with heroin.”

At one point, he ended up homeless, sleeping in a flophouse on a pile of dirty clothes, surrounded by cleaning powder to ward off rodents and roaches. It got so bad that he nearly drank himself to death over the course of a few days. Not long after a failed intervention, he finally called a friend, admitted he needed serious help, and eventually cleaned himself up at the Hazelden Betty Ford rehabilitation center in Minnesota.

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