Heartbreaking. I can't imagine. I've thought that it's got to be his idea. I don't think anyone can save someone that doesn't want to be saved.

Some people grow up fast, some grow up slow, some never grow up. Johnny has missed the boat on the first option and is somewhere between slow and never. Only he can fix himself. I am sure family and friends and those he is close to have advised him but that isn't working. Hopefully he sorts himself.

Save Johnny? Why is it our task to save someone who doesn't appear to be interested in saving himself? His job, not ours.

Johnny is our radio. Time to let him go.

I dont believe any amount of support from us would change him. Mainly because his priorities have not shifted. He loves the school no ones saying he doesn't, but he loves the scene life more.. we (the university) are just not his priority.

Johnny is just being a typical Manziel. I have done business with the family and the common thread that connects all of them is: "I'm a Manziel - the rules don't apply to me". The old man hit it big in the East Texas oil field, but not one of the succeeding generations have accomplished anything of note except to be charged with printing fake one hundred dollar bills. He will never change. I hope I am wrong, but I strongly doubt it. Johnny's life after football has been tragic, but it is self induced.

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As someone who lost an adult son to a drug overdose (after a long, painful, heart breaking journey), I can tell you that you can beg them to to go to rehab, you can take them to rehab, you can tell them to get their act together, etc.- but you cannot love them enough to make them right. Only they can do that, and until they are ready to take the lead to recovery, all you can do is love them and pray for them. Addiction is a horrible disease where rehab is only successful <70% of the time at best and overdose death leads to a life filled with grief, tears, a broken heart, as well as times of second guessing and anger (at your child, yourself- and even God)- I've experienced all of that in the last almost seven years.

So it is easy to have an opinion about something you may never have faced, it is easy to call an addict ugly names, it is easy to say all they have to do straighten up, it is easy to say we need to push them to a better life, etc.- but we have no control over that person's life until they reach out for help. I pray JFF finds his inner peace, finds Jesus (if he does not already know him) and finds his path to recovery for himself and nobody else- and a life filled with many blessings.

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I am truly sorry for your loss.

I read the book Beautiful Boy and also watched the movie. It describes what you say to a T.

I hope and pray when he hits rock bottom he can have an experience that you hear about once in a while where God can reach his soul and change his life.

Thank you.
I too read the book and watched the movie- it was very difficult and reached too close to home.
I too pray that Johnny sees the light and decides he is ready to turn around his life. God can do great things.

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