. >> sean colvin is living proof you can be a success.s beat his drug addiction. he joins us to tell us about his new life. welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> this is quite a story. you have come from a long way, for sure. tell us about just what happened in your life that led you to drugs and eventually on the streets. >> well, i was actually raised in a good family with moral and social issues being bestowed upon me, but it was when my mother remarried at the age of 12 that i started being physically abused by my stepfather. at the age of 12, i lived in the streets, a very difficult time trying to figure out how to survive and eat. detention centers, group homes, foster homes. i think that impacted me a lot in the loss of love and then also the love of direction and, you know, growing up as a man, you know. later on, as a teenager, i think still having that emptiness inside, i turned to the streets and starts smoking marijuana and things like that. >> and it spiraled out of control. >> oh, yeah. >> at what point in your life, how o