By Some Miracle I Made It Out Of There
Tom Sizemore has been dubbed a variety of names. Brilliant. Brutal. Exceptionally gifted. Angry. Addict to drugs. He is, in fact, all of them. He's a ghetto survivor, a fifty-year-old father of twin sons, and a seasoned actor who's been in dozens of films. He's also clean and sober today, after his addiction carried him as far as any human being could go.
Sizemore's screen-stealing performances in the 1990s films True Romance, Heat, and Natural Born Killers made him so popular that even when it was publicly known that he had a drug problem, filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg offered him opportunities and pleaded with him to be clean. After inviting him to dinner and expressing his appreciation, Robert De Niro personally recruited him for the part of Michael Cheritto in Heat. Each of his friends, including Jack Nicholson, Robert Downey Jr., and Johnny Depp, went out of their way to befriend him. However, this same man went from romancing Elizabeth Hurley and Juliette Lewis to being accused of domestic violence by the world's most famous madam, and he went from a Beverly Hills mansion to a solitary-confinement cell at Chino State Prison and then to a desolate, abandoned cabin in a town best known for being where Charles Manson hid Rosemary LaBianca's wallet.
Sizemore's days have been spent with overdoses, suicide attempts, and homelessness for years. The plain reality is that individuals don't usually return from where Tom Sizemore landed—but he did, amazingly. By some Miracle made it out of There is a terrible voyage into the core of addiction is presented in compelling and often disturbing detail—a terrifying warning tale for everyone who has gazed into the abyss of drug misuse. It's also one man's perspective at a specific era in entertainment history, a glimpse into the drug-fueled limelight that put Robert Downey, Jr. in jail and murdered River Phoenix, Heath Ledger, Chris Farley, and many others way before their time.
