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“One time, I actually did die and got brought back to life. Then I got arrested a few times. The last time I got arrested, I got out of jail and came home and got a couple of bundles of heroin and tried to get high but it didn’t work anymore. That was the scariest part. Drugs couldn’t silence the volume of noise in my head anymore,” he continued. “I tried to kill myself a couple of times. Junkies are funny because we’re just so incompetent at everything that I couldn’t even pull that off successfully.”

He concluded: “I called a friend and I was, like, ‘I think I’m gonna kill myself or I’m gonna go to rehab.’ My friend was like, ‘Hey, why don’t you try rehab first.’ That’s what I did and that was in 2006 and I’ve been clean since.”

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“People think I got sober working on the Generation Kill. I didn’t,” he told Interview Magazine in 2016 about getting clean “after being on heroin” for five years. “I sobered up six or seven months before that. I remember going to Africa and I was going to be there for almost a year. I was No. 2 on the call sheet and I was like, ‘I think somebody made a mistake. This is too much responsibility for me.’”

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After reporting his alleged abuser, Ransone went public by sharing a statement on social media, writing via Instagram in 2021, “[My childhood tutor and I] did very little math. The strongest memory I have of the abuse was washing blood and feces out of my sheets after you left. I remember doing this as a 12 year old because I was too ashamed to tell anyone.”

Ransone pointed out the trauma as the reason he turned to alcohol and drugs. He ultimately got sober in 2006 and had remained in recovery.