One of the things that Mike Lindell has been very vocal about is the fact that for years, he had been struggling with addiction. In 2017, he told CNBC that starting in the 1980s, he’d had a series of business ideas and ventures. One included buying a bar, and he recalled, “Probably wasn’t a real good idea because I was an addict at the time, a pretty hard-core cocaine addict.”
Lindell said that the idea for the My Pillow business came to him in a 2004 dream, and he had been certain it was a bit of divine intervention. He and his son worked out the basic concept, and even though it did really well, he said that he still found himself struggling with another addiction: “And then I got into crack cocaine.”
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Getting out of the vicious cycle that is addiction isn’t easy, and as the American Addiction Centers says, there’s a lot of factors at play when it comes to crack cocaine. They cite things like extreme withdrawal symptoms that exist on both a psychological and a physical level, and they say that overcoming it alone is very, very rare. Because of the difficulty, they recommend medical supervision and enrollment in rehabilitation programs. But here’s where Lindell’s story gets tricky. According to him, he said a prayer, asked God for his addiction to be gone, and “I woke up the next day … I go, ‘Wow, something’s different.'” His prayers, he said, were answered.
