He was told that the television team in St. Maarten had “their own captain” and “their own crew,” and that Rosbach’s job would beto simply enjoy the surroundingsand check in on the boat every few days as he got “paid double” for his time — and of course, he was game.
“But for one reason or another, the captain that they had selected couldn’t fulfill his obligations. So they had a conundrum, because we were already late into the game,” Rosbach recalled. “And they needed a captain, so they said, ‘Well, I guess we’ll use the old guy.’ "
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Later in the interview, Rosbach also opened up to DeGeneres, 63, about his son Joshua, whodied of an accidental drug overdosein July 2019 at the age of 42.
Speaking about why he thought it was important to talk about his son’s death on the show, the captain said, “I don’t think enough people are paying attention to it — they don’t realize that addicts aren’t the dregs of society.”
“It crosses all social boundaries. It doesn’t make any difference how much money you have or don’t have; it affects everybody,” he said of addiction. “I don’t believe, in the last two years, I’ve talked to anyone who doesn’t know ofsomeone personally that has paid a steep pricefor this opioid crisis that we have, and nobody says anything about it.”
“It’s the elephant in the room that people don’t want to confront, and I just think it has to be, even though it makes you extremely uncomfortable and [it’s] very painful to do so,” Rosbach added. “Somebody has to step up.”
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“The holein your heart’s never gonna go away— you can’t replace it with anything else,” the reality star explained. “We’re not generally constructed to bury our children. From the time you’re born, you grow up and your parents pass away. It’s not the other way around.”
“And when that happens, it’s completely devastating,” Rosbach went on. “And so you deal with it. You hope that you develop better coping skills to get through it.”
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