Terrence McKinney aka T. Wrecks sat down with Jason and Mikey to share his near-death story of substance abuse, redemption, and spiritual progress. Growing up, Terrence lived mostly with his Grandmother. His mother was trying to get her life together & gave him to her in hopes that she would raise him better than she was equipped to at the time. His father was never a part of his life. He was hyperactive and would get in lots of fights. One time his grandmother locked him in a basement for 24 hours. These types of events were traumatic and Terrence didn't deal with them until later.
He started doing drugs and drinking heavily as a teenager to repress the trauma he was experiencing, and this quickly spiraled out of control. One night after taking a lot of mushrooms and other drugs, Terrence woke up in the hospital after being revived by doctors. He had no idea how he got there or what he did, but he knew that he didn't want to do drugs like that anymore.
Turning his fighting into a career seemed like a natural progression for him at the time. Luckily he was able to find discipline in the sport, and this in turn made him more disciplined with how he was treating his body. If he treated his body poorly with drugs and drinking, he couldn't get where he needed to be professionally so this turned out to change his life for the better. He stopped drinking & using drugs altogether, and has since been focused on his mental and physical health.
He realized that he needed to face his trauma & past head-on, so he could deal with it and move on in a healthy way in his life. Now he's finally done that and had to make some very mature decisions about what path he wanted to go down in life. Now, he's one of the UFC's rising stars, with a world-record-setting time of 7 seconds for one of his knockouts. He trains 3 times a day and hopes to continue his path of personal growth and maintain his health.
This is Terrence McKinney in his own words, on Knockin' Doorz Down.
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