1:33..."I don't feel bad for me at all, I feel terrible for him that he missed this. It's much more powerful on this side, it's much more of an experience to be a parent to a child than to be a child to a parent."...............WOW, love it.

"It's so hard not to look at your parents as the sum of their mistakes"

Very emotionally intelligent.

Said this for years: sometimes having a lack luster parent who you later realize is a human and filled with issues can be great motivation to be a great parent yourself.

Never resonated more with an interview than with this one... Wow he is very introspective and reflective

Dax Shepard has lived a troubled life although he seems much happier and in peace with himself now

”It's much more of an experience to be a parent to a child than to be a child to a parent.” (Dax Shepard)

"It's so hard not to look at your parents as the sum of their mistakes". I felt that.

Wow. It’s tough to realize that parents are people too and can mess up like anyone. My father was an alcoholic and I hated him for a long time. Then my mother got sick and he took care of her for five years and I was able to let that go

Profoundly wise and vulnerable and honest. Love this interview

Every time I hear Dax Shepard, i respect him a little more.

This is a deeply moving talk. Speaks volumes to people with disappointing parents.

People who've been through the toughest struggles tend to be the funniest and want to spread happiness to others❤️

This situation probably made you a better dad..just like my mom leaving me made me a better mom. Because I wouldn't wish that feeling on any child.

That's some grow up maturity right there. You are the better man.

You're not supposed to make me cry like that. Dammit.

I like him so much. The more I learn the more respect I have for Dax Shepard nit to mention how entertaining he is.

What a great guy. I just learned in 2 minutes how to forgive my dad. That was incredible. Thank you.

Dax was so good-looking in "Employee of the Month" that I was jealous. I immediately surmised that this guy had never had a problem in his life. If only I could have been born with his blonde hair and cute face my life would've been perfect too.. He'd prob'ly had a million girlfriends and got every part in every production that he cared to grace with his charisma and good looks.Then I saw this interview. I almost cried. Why do we (I pray that I'm not alone) think that just because someone looks good everything is gonna just fall in their lap? Dax' story completely blew my mind. Not in a million years would I think that he could experience such misfortune. He would be calling ME lucky. And I've been through some rough times myself. It's so easy to be so wrong. I'm really glad that things got turned around for him.

my dad refused my love, since about age 18 when I wanted to move out and go to college. I left and he kicked me out when I came back for summer, and all my life I never got to be friends with him, he rejected me on holidays wouldnt open gifts or wouldnt be home for fathers day (parents divorced)and favored the brothers, its so sad, when he got sick I took care of him but he was no nicer even in his last days. Now I see that the poison he had, that I don't need to accept it, and feel more sorry for him that he couldnt accept me for the good person I was trying to be. I am just so impressed with the honesty and openness of this video, I so relate. Thank you!

Compassion is palpable. What an amazing journey is when in recovery from fear, anger, and resentment. It also clears the path for the next generation.

This is so powerful. Dax has suffered but grown a lot out of bad circumstances.

As the saying goes, 'It's harder to forgive your friends (family) than your enemies' !

Wow I really needed to hear this as a walk my healing journey of forgiveness for my parents. Why is it so much easier to see a stranger as just a person who makes mistakes versus when it's your mom or dad you just hold so much anger.

I’ve just been binge watching all interviews with Sam Jones....he really gets people to open up and be themselves....how does he do it....

That was an exceptionally powerful video. Amazing insight on Dax's part. I can learn a lot from this.

That was a very powerful look at people, life, forgiveness, and a look at how we see our parents and their shortcomings. Thank you for sharing.

Does he have a book?..his story is so amazing

Love his humanity.

It's so great how he looks at people and can honestly feel about someone! 💯

I love the person that Dax is and the wisdom he just shared with the world. That was beautiful. Thank you.

What an incredible admission by both a parent and a child. We are all flawed. We are all imperfect. You never understand your parents more than when you become an adult and a parent yourself.

He gets so canadian when he talks about his dad. I can understand what he feels like only it was my mother who left an dad acting in two roles

Powerful. I’m crying. Thank you for sharing. 💙

Very interesting to hear about others' lives and at times relate them to my own. I really enjoy these interviews!

Oh my gosh so true. 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 i have still a lot to learn. We all do. Thank you for sharing Dax.

Beautiful, thank you for sharing this💓

What a personal thing to share. Empathy is a powerful thing.

Wow. Powerful. Especially the last bit. He has a lot of wisdom.

One of the best videos ever. Ever.

My father was a man who would could be mean, nasty and manipulative with words. Also condescending, disdainful, a snob and his efforts to show he cared and was interested in me didn't work. He died in a horrible highway crash just before I turned 21. In the nearly 40 years since then I've come to see my father as a lonely, unhappy, disappointed, frustrated man who who was in over his head in his job, was completely unsuited to marriage to a woman and to rearing children and who may have been a closeted homosexual. I'm single, never married, no children but I've come to see my father as someone who had a deeply unhappy life that ended terribly. I once had a dream some years later that my father was shouting at me. Though he and I were the same height, in my dream I was taller than my father. As he was shouting at me I said nothing to my father but just put my arms around him. That was how the dream ended.

Dude, I freakin love these !

Very powerful interviews. Good on ya, Dax S. for 'coming out' as a sober person who uses the principles of AA to live today. I know, I know- "Anonymous at the level of press, radio & TV", but- individual stories, shared one on one is HOW IT WORKS! Super powerful, would love to hear his story at a meeting.

powerful video

Who knew all this emotional intelligence lived inside the guy from Punk'd?..

I love this guy

Love this

A good parent is good because they can love their child more than themselves. For those parents incapable of doing that, or incapable of staying with their spouse, it is better that they leave rather than stay and grow resentful of or hateful and abusive toward their child or spouse. I share Dax's story, from my age of 7 when my father left. I know what dies within a child when their parent leaves. Still, it was better that two people at least had another chance to find and create a better life with a spouse they instead could find that place of love with.

Yeah, I can totally relate unfortunately 😑

Wow. Subscribed.

Well done, Dax.

What a deep guy wow

While his interviews are indeed deep and I appreciate him, it just occurred to me now reading the comments, it's all women watching this lol. Of course they love this, he's a great looking actor pouring his heart out.

So true.💔

It's "funny" to me how these things affect us differently. My father never abandoned me but I've got such a bad relationship with him (especially after my mother died, when I was 14) that I can't think of no stronger reason than this for my decisiveness on not ever having children of my own. Whenever I think about this the poem "This be the verse" by Philip Larkin comes to my mind. I just don't want to ever see a kid struggle with some of the feelings I've had myself. Anyway, it's interesting that Dax points out how good it is to be on the other side, being a parent himself. Such a different perspective.

But when your parents make the same mistakes and narcissistic behavior over your entire life... forgiveness is difficult if not impossible. I think he’s grossly simplifying the situation. I doubt his father made just one bad mistake, or even a whole series of them.

Aaand I'm crying

Sometime were harder on the people we love the most.

Love the interviews but... why are they re-uploaded every couple months?

Addictions make normal people do things no sane person would ever choose to do.

I had a terrible mother I have tried to forgive but I can’t

He went to the bar

When you get to your 40's you begin to see life from more of 'your parent's' perspective.

I can't be the only one that thinks he and Zach Braff look very alike...

Love these clips, my only criticism is the music at the end feels not appropriate to the tenor of the subject matters.. So it gives it an imbalanced sense as though making light of the serious material. Thanks for the interviews though! :)

I never met my dad until I was 38 last year...he's still a drug addict and a manipulative person. I'm so lucky my mom left him when I was an infant and he never looked for me......I get what he is feeling.

Wow His a Good dad.

Wow.

Yeah, I don't see it at all. I am going to be 47 years old this year and I still see the monster who was horribly abuse and later walked away from my 3 and 2 year old brothers and never looked back. He's still the piece of shit he was when I was a child. Next question............

Looking very handsome in this video Dax

That music at the end seems a little bit out of place

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0:40 a very strong metaphorical scene, it's not a physical thing that holds people back at times

I honestly really wished I had a father like that, one with good intentions at least. I mean, there's a lot of ways I can work around all the awful things he did, I can see what not to do, what man I should become in contrast to him. Just... Wouldn't it be so much simpler if he was actually a good man? If he never laid his hands on my mother or my older sister and scarred and hurt them so much? If I actually had someone to directly look up to, and not worry so often that it could just be in my blood and genes to destroy and ruin all that is precious in my life? I mean I don't know, I'm only 17 and I guess I'll have a fair bit of time to solve it all, it's just... It scares me at times, I'm scared that all I'll every achieve would only be an attempt to hide that fact that I am my father's son, and as if I never meant a damn second of it, and that my nature was a lie to me myself in attempts to cover that up. Hell, I just don't know. All that I do know is that I'll try to be the best man I can be, tainted genes or not.

He ate a brownie once..

At the end, did he say he's more willing to forgive strangers than his father?

That is like the gospel of Jesus Christ. He loves us and forgives us, He looks pasts our sins because they are on the cross. I pray to be more forgiving everyday.

"I'm not granting him any of the forgiveness I would a stranger who walks into a meeting". Yet I feel like we should grant parents forgiveness because they are our parents, our blood. I see where he's coming from and I feel that way, but I would feel almost a duty to forgive a parent.

If he does another one of these things, I think he should restart drinking and taking drugs.

We are much harder on our family members even to a cruel point. There is no black and white only black. You feel you give them a little space and they wanna become your steering wheel