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Shane recalls never fitting in with his community; neither his neighborhood nor even his family. He blames this for acting out as a child.\\xa0 Shane was such a discipline problem that he was switched around to 16 different schools by the time he was 15 years old.\\xa0 But it wasn\\u2019t until he was away at college that Shane started drinking.\\xa0 He says alcohol gave him confidence and a sense of fun.\\xa0 Shane\\u2019s life dream was to become an actor, feeling drawn to New York City looking for work but finding wild cast parties instead.\\xa0 In the middle of that stretch, Shane has first experience with sobriety; a woman he was trying to date encouraged him to stop drinking, and he stayed clean for for five years.\\xa0 But Shane knows now that sobriety didn\\u2019t come from within, and when moving to Los Angeles to find more acting work, he became engrossed in a cocaine-fueled Hollywood life lasting years.\\xa0 His only wake-up call was when he began to beat his girlfriend whose only affront was her attempt to keep the drugs away.