Leigh Steinberg calls them “checkout days,” when he would drink vodka from morning until night, often straight from the bottle.
Divorced and living alone for the first time, he’d drink while sitting on his balcony overlooking Newport Bay or while in bed, sometimes half-conscious.
He was arrested for DUI and again for public intoxication. In and out of rehab, he ended up on the doorstep of a treatment center for indigent alcoholics, but there wasn’t a bed for him.
“So I had the ignominious distinction of not even being able to get into indigent rehab,” Steinberg said.
Steinberg, the super agent who was the inspiration for Tom Cruise’s character in “Jerry Maguire,” had fallen so hard that in October 2008, he was arrested for investigation of being drunk in public after police received reports of a man “screaming and attempting to climb a hill” near Pacific Coast Highway.
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