How Terry Crews’ Life Changed After Surrendering Pride to God
By Movieguide® Contributor
Terry Crews opened up about how he overcame pride and his pornography addiction by surrendering them to God.
“Pride was my biggest issue,” Crews said on TBN.
“I remember taking my son to this movie,” he began. “He was about 6 years old. And it was superheroes and explosions and everything and people dying. And he’s wincing. And I remember looking down at my son, and I said, ‘Are you sure you wanna go?’ He’s like, ‘No, no, no, no.'”
“He’s frightened. He had his hands all over his face,” Crews continued. “And I’m like, ‘Okay.’ So, I sit for a couple more seconds, and he’s still shaking. It was with every explosion, and finally, we went out to the lobby. I said, ‘Son, are you okay?’ He’s like, ‘Yeah.’ I’m like, ‘No. You’re not okay. Son, are you okay?’ He said, ‘No.’ And I recognize that at 6 years old, there was the pride of being a man, holding on, having this dream, appearing strong, when you’re not.
“That was me,” the actor admitted. “Here I had a problem watching pornography, and it became this huge monster that I couldn’t control. And I would never admit it. And the whole thing was, are you okay? God was looking at me saying, ‘Are you okay?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, yeah.'”
“Finally, I went to God, and I said, ‘No. I’m not okay. I am not okay.’ And when that pride broke down, when all of that melted, God was like, ‘Now I can change you. Now it can happen,'” he explained.
Crews surrendered his addiction and pride to God and saw his life change.
“Today, I look at my husband, and I always say he’s a better man than me. He took hold of the Word of God, and he took hold of the Scriptures, and he just ran with all his might,” his wife, Rebecca, said. “He said, ‘God, I don’t want to be like this anymore.’ And He amazes me every day. He really is the kinder, gentler version of Terry Crews because he let God do a work in his life.”
“Our marriage was resurrected because it was dead. It was 100% dead,” Crews said.
The couple now use their platform to encourage others to rebuild their marriages.
“And we shared this book [‘Stronger Together: How Fame, Failure and Faith Transformed Our Lives’] because we knew there are other couples out there that are going through or have gone through or will go through some of the similar things,” Rebecca said. “And we really wanted to be a beacon of hope.”
Movieguide® previously reported on Crews’ addiction:
Actor and activist Terry Crews recently revealed how his marriage to Rebecca King-Crews nearly ended because of his pornography addiction.
The couple opened up about how Crews’ addiction affected their marriage on the “PEOPLE Every Day” show with host Janine Rubenstein.
“The best piece of advice I ever got was a good friend of mine, he was the first guy I called when Rebecca was like, ‘don’t come home.’ He said ‘Terry, you need to get better for you,’” Crews said. “You have to understand that was a watershed moment. In my culture, as a man in sports, you do things to get things. You do good things to get cookies, you know? You work hard to get money … but to actually improve just for yourself, that was a foreign thought.”
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