As a teen, Shaun Weiss filmed his scenes in The Mighty Ducks at the L.A. Kings’ arena. In his 30s, he slept on the ground outside the venue. Now, he believes the internet saved him:
Weiss circles one friendship in particular, the dissolution of which captures his decline. He says that Apatow helped him check into and pay for a rehab facility, and that he assisted in finding employment: Apatow paid Shaun to write and do production assistant work on movies
Weiss lit into Apatow, “saying all kinds of stupid s---,” he says. His voice grows somber as he recounts the moment. He says Apatow told him that if he didn’t stop yelling, this was the end of their relationship.Weiss, around this time, leaned into what he says was a fixation on the cliché of the tortured artist. He wrote and produced a web short,, in both cases playing a funhouse-mirror version of himself, down to his increasing struggles with various forms of addiction.
Beyond places and a few faces, the details of his life at this point can feel like a Jackson Pollock painting: colorful but scattered, riveting and chaotic. “The drugs were so intense,” he points out. “And I’m 43 now. Your memory does start to go.” More than a few times he landed at Los Angeles County Jail—one of them for three months straight—where he says the guards once played a scene fromover the P.A. speakers. Inside, he learned to join a gang. “They basically court you,” he says. “I felt like I was meeting with an agency. … I went [with] South Side,” joining a Lainto clique. “They were better at sharing their food.”
Another time he found himself taking shelter under the awning of the L.A. Kings’ Valley Ice Center, where he recalled decades earlier training for. “I used to look down on people,” he says, remembering himself at 16, driving around in his M3, thinking he was “better than the people on the bus.” Back on the streets, Weiss, high on meth, was caught in a thunderstorm. He broke into a garage, and then into the car inside, and he was arrested on a felony burglary charge. This time it was an old Hollywood friend who intervened. Natanya Ross had been a child actor in the 1990s as well ; and she, too, had struggled early on with addiction, leading to homelessness.
When Weiss realized what was happening, he felt that hit of twelve hundred. “It changed my chemistry,” he says. “I was so depressed and feeling so worthless. Then, to have thousands of people reach out to you? To give you love and support? My fans saved me. … How could I be so selfish when all these people are rooting for me? How can I let them down?”
The difference between the present and the past: Now Weiss lets himself feel that pain. No diving out of the way. And in the pain there is a gift: the recognition of growth. In the past, he says, “I think I was just as addicted to volatility as anything.”
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