Hollywood Actor Chris Carberg Overcomes Addiction, Religion and Finds God
By Eryn Sun | Christian Post Reporter

It’s a story we’ve heard once before. A Hollywood actor addicted to drugs, joins rehab, finds God, and turns his life around. But this time, the story doesn’t just end there.

Actor and screenwriter Chris Carberg 28, creates Holypop.com, an educational community for believers and skeptics.

For rising entertainer Chris Carberg, now the CEO of a growing Christian resource website finding God was just the start of a new, transformed life, one that could never be the same again.

Before becoming a devout believer, Carberg, known for his roles in such films as “Kill Zone” and “Sydney White,” battled a severe addiction to prescription pills, heading down a path all too familiar for many Hollywood hopefuls.

With growing success as an actor, producer, and screenwriter came an increasing appetite and dependency on prescription pills and painkillers, originally intended to relieve his migraine headaches.

“My addiction really had a lot to do with lacking a strong self-image,” the 28-year-old explained to The Christian Post in an email interview.

“One time I took two pills together and felt a calm peace that I’d never experienced. From there it was just a matter of ordering pills online, hitting plateaus and needing more and then spiraling out of control.”

His secret addiction eventually left him passed out at a Kinkos in Orlando at 3 a.m. one day, having overdosed heavily.

The police, who were called to the scene, found him and searched through his car, discovering a large garbage bag in his trunk filled with every pill bottle he had ever owned, what he dubbed his very own “golden calf, trophy, and idol.”

Thanks to an Officer Voyles, a policeman whom he has been unsuccessfully trying to find ever since that day, Carberg was able to survive, detoxing for the next few days and getting himself checked into a rehab clinic in Tamarac, Fla., shortly after.

Following detox, rehab, and a 12-step meeting to get his life back on track, Carberg began to sense that something was still missing, and it wasn’t his pills. He longed for a relationship, and not just any relationship, but one with God – someone he had frequently heard of but never really knew.

Though Carberg had been brought up Catholic all his life, he had up until that point, called himself an agnostic.

He was uncomfortable with what he characterized as “hypocritical organized religion.” He was turned off by Christianity which he perceived was plagued with hypocrisy among its followers – pastors cheating on their wives and priests committing sexual abuse, among other things.

But still curious about God despite the evident problems of the church, he decided to visit a local church in Winter Park, Fla., where a pastor told him something he would never forget.

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for Chris 's co-stars from the 2007 Sydney White movie

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Isaiah 53 and Micah 5:2 and Isaiah 9:6 point to the Jewish Messiah YESHUA aka JESUS