Here I am from '95 to '99 addicted to crystal meth, smoking it, even tried
shooting it at one time. Ultimately was addicted, completely dependent upon it.
Christian Hosoi is ranked among the greatest skateboarders of all time.
He was also a darling of Hollywood. The VIP ropes were always lifted for him, and his crew.
He had it all --looks, charisma, money, guts, and ability. Suddenly the show stopped in a heartbeat.
As skateboarders got higher, Christian Hosoi led the way, breaking all altitude records. Doing
big airs back in the day was just a natural progression. The excitement of spectators
that really pumped up the whole atmosphere when you're skateboarding, and the higher you got, the
more amped, the more pumped you are.
And so, to me it's probably the best feeling in the world.
He was the skate star of the '80s.
He was Mister Style.
Plus, he had a personality. And a posse.
He was so gifted.
He has this sort of star presence.
There's something about him.
As far as I'm concerned he was the best guy out of his particular time zone.
The best guy almost ever, in terms of what he could do.
When I turned ten, it became an everyday thing.
I had six to ten hours a day of skate time.
His hair was real long and I go, Look at that girl, man, she's a really good skater.
And it was no, no, no, he's not a girl; he was a little boy.
But everything he did, he was just perfect. I mean flawless.
And you just knew that when he grew up, he was going to be the champ.
When he came to skate he dominated.
It was the highest, the most stylish. He took chances.
And his attitude was always no holds barred.
I'd ask people, hey what whatever happened to Christian? People would tell me about
how you know Christian was all methed out . Here I am, from 95 to 99 addicted to crystal
meth. Smoking it, even tried shooting it at one time, ultimately just was addicted,
completely dependent upon it. I've had to, you know help revive people .
I've had to keep people alive while partying right there next to em.
Talk about insane you know what I mean? Think about that, you're
sitting there and somebody's like almost dying, and you're yet keeping them alive,
but yet still partying... same drug that nearly killed that person.
And you're doing it, pushing the limits of life. And so many of my friends have just pushed it
to the limit and fell off and died. And yet I still continued to use drugs, ignorantly,
living ignorantly, thinking I'm invincible, I'm untouchable .I know how to do this, I'm smart.
Everyone thinks they're smarter than someone else that doesn't make it.
When the first X Games came out, I was in Japan, and I had a bench warrant out for my arrest for a
misdemeanor drug possession. Then I went to Hawaii for three months, and ended up in the pit of,
you know, ice, which is crystal meth at a high grade. He didn't look good, he looked really bad,
so it kind of wasn't a surprise to me... all of a sudden he's on his way to prison.
Christian Hosoi wasn't a big shock that he went to prison. My arrest was a pretty surprising.
Spiritual markers in your life actually come to life, like just being nicknamed Christ in '85,
inventing the Christ Air in the late '80s, and my... ultimately
my name is Christian in the first place. Wore crosses my whole life. It is quite ironic...
In January of 2000 I go to prison, and finally hit rock bottom, and realized what am I here for?
Why was I created? Why is this happening to me? Why, why, why why why? I'm sitting
here making my first phone call from prison to Jennifer, going, look I'm looking at 10 years.
I don't know what's going to happen... Of course I was bawling my eyes out,
but she was like, you know I love you, we're gonna try to get through this,
but we just have to trust in God. And right there I was like God, you know, what's God gonna do for
me? I was like I need a lawyer babe! I'd never opened the Bible before in my whole entire life,
and here I am in a situation opening up a Bible, don't even know what, for
seeking God because I'm finally in a place where everything's been cut, all my lines have been cut,
and I open it up to Kings .I start reading, and it was like God was speaking to me saying,
this is who I am, this is how I function through people, in people.
This is my forgiveness, this is my mercy, and I tell you, it was like the whole world and all the
burdens of my life and all the shame and all the guilt just fell off my shoulders, and I was free.