new york times" sent me to rehab. i was so grateful. still am. and it was there that a therapist suggested i go back to something i was passionate about, which was gymnastics. in my eyes, i was a failure. my only golfs to go to the olympics and i didn't. to go back to that sport was to walk into humiliation. i went back to it in and a fire inside of me, spark ignited. >> reporter: no surprise, it felt pretty good and after rehab, joe caught a break and started performing on broadway. but the thing about heroin is that the possibility of a relapse was always waiting there for him in the wings. >> i managed to stay clean for a year and a half and i was on --