How pain med dependence took its toll on Grant and Chezzi Denyer
<p>Thanks to coronavirus lockdowns, all the extra downtime has allowed celebs to kickstart their own podcasts.</p>
<p>But the most exciting of all has been Grant and Chezzi Denyer’s podcast titled, <em>It’s All True?</em></p>
<p>The power couple use the platform to give an insight into their whirlwind life in an unfiltered, truthful way.</p>
<p>The first episode discussed Grant’s terrifying accident and the subsequent effect pain medication had on him – and the couple's marriage.</p>
<p>"Some of the things that have happened to us over the years are so out there, they don't seem true," Grant says at the beginning of the episode.</p>
<p>And he isn’t wrong.</p>
<p>The <em>Family Feud</em> host was almost paralysed after a shocking stunt which saw him jump seven cars in a monster truck went terribly wrong.</p>
<p>"I was jumping seven cars, landed," he recalls. "The suspension broke, I think. My back then broke, instantly. The pain shot up so fast, I was like, 'I'm in a lot of trouble here'."</p>
<p>"I was in such a bad way that none of the morphine was working and I could tell veteran [paramedic] was like, I've given enough to put an elephant down here."</p>
<p>Doctors believed Grant would never be able to walk again after he shattered his vertebra.</p>
<p>Despite the agonising pain and long road to recovery, Grant admits "the medication is the worst part, by far".</p>
<p>"We were warned by a friend who had recently gone through a broken back, on all the things that will start going on in our brain as you try and handle the medication – and HOLY HELL!"</p>
<p>"The moment you close your eyes, you can't tell the difference between your reality and your dream.</p>
<p>"When you wake up you can't tell what's real and what isn't."</p>
<p>Grant and Chezzi remembered the hallucinations from believing there were intruders in their home to being convinced Chezzi had flown to London and back one morning.</p>
<p>"I couldn't make a phone call without freaking him out, he'd hear voices," Chezzi recalls.</p>
<p>"We had so many drug psychosis episodes where Grant would kick me out of the house because I was an imposter dressed up as Chezzi.</p>
<p>"I'd be locked out of the house, a crying mess, and I couldn't call my family to tell them how bad it was.</p>
<p>"After three months it's a bit of a dependence, you can't tell what's pain and what is dependence at that point."</p>
<p>With Chezzi in charge of Grant's medication, she's baffled by those who manage to self-medicate.</p>
<p>"I would've thrown them down like MnMs [if I were self-medicating]," Grant admits in response.</p>
<p>But Chezzi admits that what was possibly one of the most difficult period in the couple’s relationship, is also the one that “connected us”.</p>
<p>"Our whole existence in that period was patient-and-nurse. We went everywhere together."</p>
<p>"As it turns out that is not healthy."</p>
<p>The couple then had to, years later, try to "untangle" that level of "co-dependence".</p>
<p>But, it's easy to see that they've come out stronger than ever.</p>
