From Addiction to Freedom: Terry Crews Chronicles Porn’s Effect on Life
By Moveiguide® Contributor
Actor and 2023 Movieguide® Awards host Terry Crews opened up about how his pornography addiction affected his relationship with his wife and children on an episode of Dax Shepherd’s “Armchair Expert” podcast.
Crews recalled that anytime his wife, Rebecca King, asked him about his addiction, he would “start an argument” so she “wouldn’t ask anymore questions.”
“Poor woman,” he expressed. “It was horrible. My kids, I would be angry at them for getting in the way.”
Crews grew up in an “ultra-religious” household and was a victim of his abusive father. He was exposed to porn at age eight, and it helped him forget “all the stress, all the problems, everything.”
As an adolescent, Crews relied on pornography as an escape, but as an adult, he was an addict.
“A lot of time in the hotels alone I would be on the porn channels. I would feel super guilty, and then I would read a bunch of self-help,” he stated.
“I felt bad about myself all the time,” he recalled. “I am a failure in my head.”
“If I got a day off from a set…I could watch porn from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. at night. And I wouldn’t stop. I couldn’t stop,” Crews added.
The actor explained to Shepherd that he tried to “justify” his porn addiction by telling himself that it didn’t cause him to cheat on his wife. But eventually, it caught up with him, and he did.
“I cheated on my wife. I was that dude. Like, who officially stepped outside, and I had never done that before. I kept that secret for years,” Crews stated.
He told himself he would never tell his wife. But when he decided to seek help for his addiction, the former NFL player owned up to his mistakes.
Crews said, “I put it all down, and I told her what I did.”
While she initially left him, the couple eventually reconciled after Crews underwent rehab for his addiction.
They have now been married for 34 years and share five children together.
Movieguide® previously reported on Crews’ marriage:
Rebecca Crews, wife of actor and former NFL player Terry Crews, recently reflected on a dark time when she thought her marriage was over.
“My husband and I had gone through a really bitter breakup, and we were trying to rebuild our marriage when we got into a verbal fight,” Rebecca recalled. “I’d always had these inner fears of rejection and abandonment, and so often, when we would fight, my husband would grab his things and leave. He would abandon me there with all my feelings. And it would always leave me in this frozen, fearful state. I would sit there, holding my breath, rocking in the chair with my pillow because my greatest fear was him leaving me. I couldn’t pray. I couldn’t talk. It just was this bitter dark void that I could not find expression for.”
When Terry was out, Rebecca would mourn until she turned her grief into prayer.
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