Dax Shepard reflects on messy 2004 Conan interview in which he fell over while 'blackout' drunk

He said for him, he would always get sober for film roles. He previously detailed how he did it for his first movie 2004's Without a Paddle and then 2006's Idiocracy. However, before he was to sober up to make 2005's Zathura, he went on a trip to Hawaii where things turned dangerous. He got in a car accident there while going to buy cocaine — and the cocaine turned out to be meth, which he used anyway.

Shepard recalled the "super dangerous" trip during which he was "smoking meth" to Griffin and saying he was so "physically sick from this week in Hawaii that I'm not even going to be able to get on that plane unless I get like a good 6 or 7 Jack and Diets in me. So I'm at the bar," at the San Francisco airport waiting for his connection home to L.A. "and I'm just pounding Jack and Diets and there's a mirror next to me — and I'm also paranoid someone from AA is going to see me because I had been sober before — so I'm like tucked into the corner of this bar, I'm so afraid someone's going to see me."

The star, who got his start on Punk'd, continued, "I'm about to start a movie and make the most amount of money I've ever made in my life, people in Hawaii recognized me, I'm now famous. And I recognize: I have every single thing I've ever wanted, and I'm at my lowest point emotionally and something has got to be very broken about that. If I have everything I said was going to make me feel good and I feel terrible, I've got to look at some other thing" inside that he was trying to mask by using drugs and alcohol.

Shepard, who's now married to Kristen Bell, said it was the "scariest place you could be." Also around that time, he appeared on Conan O'Brien's then-talk show — and it was messy, per another podcast preview. He did a pre-interview with producers to come up with talking points for his appearance but did so while "blackout" drunk. Twenty minutes before he was to be on the show, a security guard woke him in his hotel bed. When cameras rolled, he could barely walk — or make a sentence.

"I show up on the show, I don't know what he's talking about," Shepard recalled. "I can tell he's queuing me up for stories I've told, but I don't know any of the stories. So, I'm just doing what I can to be funny out there and I am a mess."

At one point, he fell over a chair and broke a table.

"Now, the audience dug it," Shepard said. "It was fine for the audience. But for him, what a disaster. I didn't know any of the stories. I broke a coffee table. 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, but that was probably the only career wreckage-y thing I did."

In September, Shepard — who shares two children with Bell — revealed on his own podcast, Armchair Expert, that while he claimed to be 16 years sober, he had secretly relapsed, taking pills like Vicodin and Oxycontin. At the time, he was seven days sober but said for eight weeks prior, he'd been on pills "all day."

Shepard said that while he got sober in 2004 after battling an alcohol and cocaine addiction — and celebrated his annual sobriety milestones publicly — he started being "shady" with pills in 2012. Some of stemmed from pain from various injuries, but he also took a Percocet with his late dad before he died, saying that the only thing they had in common "was we were both f****** addicts."

Did someone say HOT MESS?

Omg.

Poor guy.

Dax is trashy hot.

I'd love to have sex with him.

Oh god. How bad is it, R2? I have weird Mary! issues seeing active addicts make fools of themselves. I feel so bad.

It's bad, R4.

But watch it.

So cringeworthy that it hurts.

Dax has a big 'ol dick.

R6 proof?

How does anyone not find him hot?

I'd let DAX pound my hole until I'm senseless!

He comes from 10 generations of trailer trash but his big dick makes up for it. None of you Marys! on here would not present hole.

He used to have big dick energy but he's been oversharing Frau topics for two many years now.

Did shows like Dick Cavett, Michael Douglas, Johnny Carson and Merv Griffin have pre interview rehearsals? That’s why late night talk shows are boring. It’s basically a scripted promo.

How did DAX get a bruised tit?

Dax has said on his podcast that his penis is average sized. Where are you guys getting the idea that he has a huge one? He looks like he could very well have a big one, but he sounded sincere to me when he said it isn’t big.

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I didn't realize the image at r14 was from the Independent, I just got it off Google, sorry about that.

It's a screen capture from the Conan appearance where he was drunk, I thought it was too funny to not post.

That is indeed hilarious.

Dax is white trash hot.

I'll bet he's a fuck machine in bed.

After that build up, the Conan clip is pretty mild. He does fall over and out of a chair, kicking over a small table, but it looks like an intentional bit. He tracks okay answering the questions. Conan deftly played along with it. If that’s an example of a disastrous drunken talk show interview then I’d say a good 50% of talk show interviews are with stoned guests because a lot of them sound like that.

If he is not packing serious heat, then my radar is way off. Perhaps he was being modest or has never compared it (yeah right).

Maybe the BDE is the confidence that he can throw a mean fuck? SOMETHING is happening, because I don’t find him remotely attractive otherwise and I should because he would be my type (blonde skinny drunk mess) if not so trashy. I like them patrician and androgynous or rough hewn and brooding. Basically Clive Owen and Jude Law in Closer, for example

He seems proud of his addict behavior, like he misses it.

I’m no expert, but that doesn’t bode well. I hope his wife has her shit together.

Just get sober and help the people around you. Try to make up for making their life a living hell for your selfishness.

You don’t have to start a foundation, you don’t have to start a podcast, you don’t have to keep telling media outlets about your rock-bottom… Just move on.

Everybody is so fucking thirsty these days. It’s exhausting

[quote] I’m no expert, but that doesn’t bode well. I hope his wife has her shit together.

She's a fairly busy and in-demand actress. Plus, she is doing a ton of commercial endorsements too.

For someone as successful and popular as Kristen Bell, I can think of only one reason why she's still with Dax.

He must fuck like a caveman, and/or have a huge cock.

“I'm not even going to be able to get on that plane unless I get like a good 6 or 7 Jack and Diets in me. So I'm at the bar,"

Jack & “diets” 🤣 how manly.

I drink Jack and Diet, R23.

Who in the hell wants all that sugar in regular Coke?

Not me.

No proof of big dick. Fake news.

[quote] Kristen Bell Says Husband Dax Shepard “Babysat” Her as She Tried Hallucinogenic Mushrooms

He's her husband of seven years, he's the father of her children... and he's her babysitter while she does drugs.

It seems like Kristen Bell spent her last birthday in the good place, thanks to her husband Dax Shepard.

The Frozen star revealed that she experimented with psychedelic mushrooms last year to try to help with her depression and anxiety, and she shared her experience on Sean Hayes' podcast HypochondriActor on May 12.

She said that she read Michael Pollan's book How to Change Your Mind, explaining, "He really goes into detail about this underground academic community that has continued to study the effects of LSD and psilocybin on what they call 'healthy normals.'"

Bell noted, "There are aspects to those two particular drugs that the places you can go in your brain are much deeper and more healing than anything else."

She then became "really interested in doing mushrooms" to "feel what kind of doors open" and "have a trip that was my own."

Fortunately for her, she is married to the right guy for the job. "I am very lucky to be married to an ex-drug addict," Bell joked of Shepard. "Not only did he know where to get the mushrooms… he got that really nice quality, organic, set and setting, beautiful mushroom. And then he, um, babysat me."

She recalled the conversation she had with the father of her two daughters, during which she laid out her instructions for the occasion. "I said, ‘I really would like to experience this. And I don't want to, I'm not going to party with it, but I want to know what this feels like. And I want to talk while I'm doing it, and I want you to talk to me.' And he took me on a walk around the neighborhood and it was so lovely," the actress, 40, shared.

One highlight for her was how "enamored" she was with her own body.

"I had gone to the bathroom, I went to pee and I came downstairs wide-eyed," she reflected. "And I said, ‘Dax, I had to pee. I felt the sensation of having to pee and all of a sudden this beautiful lady'—and I was pointing to my legs—‘picked me up. She walked me down the hallway. She sat me down on the toilet. She rolled a little roll of toilet paper for me and just put it on my lap till I was done peeing. Then she wiped me. Then she flushed the toilet and now I'm back out here.'"

For Bell, it was a reminder of how we should appreciate our bodies. As she put it, "And in my head, I had separated this body that had done so much good in my life, that has taken me through happiness and pain and workouts and laziness and I was just like, couldn't stop touching my legs, going, ‘You're so strong. You're so elegant.' "

The Veronica Mars alum said her anxiety and depression still comes in waves, sharing that she can get "irritable" around fans or if she works on set early in the morning. If that's the case, she tries to "slow down" and tell herself to "be here right now."

I knew she did drugs too.

No way she wouldn't, being married to a guy like Dax.

Oh yeah, she's a big druggy. All big druggies take their first mushroom trip at age 40, baby sat by their spouses, and "not too party".

Oh. I see. She’s got her own problems.

I've mentioned this before, but Kristen and Dax were both regulars at a cannabis dispensary I worked at in 2019. Not sure if he was sober then.

I wish him the best of luck in his recovery. Truly. Seems like he's been through a lot.

Bell has been open about her pot usage.

Good for her for trying shrooms. She should read the DL thread about microdosing and growing your own! I have that same Pollan book but haven’t read it—it was DL that got me to try microdosing, and it’s worked better on my depression than anything else in the last 15 years.

I love the insinuation that Bell is a druggie and that’s why she’s with Dax, and is she REALLY capable of taking care of him and the kids on her own if he relapses??? Stupid Puritan DLers.

[quote]I can tell he's queuing me up for stories I've told

Oh dear

I think that posting was on meth, or I blacked out at some point and started over, but thought it was repeating.

R24 speaks for all of us. R23 manly does not equal more carbs lol are you even gay?

[Quote] that while he claimed to be 16 years sober, he had secretly relapsed, taking pills like Vicodin and Oxycontin. At the time, he was seven days sober but said for eight weeks prior, he'd been on pills "all day."

This story will not have a happy ending.