There wasn’t one moment where everything broke. It happened slowly.
Relapses.
Disappearing.
Promises that didn’t hold.
His son was struggling with addiction, and every instinct told him to help — to step in, to fix it, to keep him close.
But he learned something hard.
Sometimes helping… wasn’t helping.
So he made a different choice.
He set boundaries.
Created distance.
Held a line that felt impossible to hold.
Not because he didn’t love his son.
Because he did.
He refused to pretend things were okay.
Refused to make it easier for the addiction to continue.
And still — he didn’t give up.
He stayed in the fight.
Even when it meant letting go in certain moments.
That father was David Sheff.
And his son, Nic Sheff, eventually found his way to recovery.
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