worried about me so much with the pills that on this particular occasion, i think that pawpaw convinced maggie that i got those pills in anticipation of the eye surgery but that i never took them so that she would not worry that i was once again now you are talking about the time in may that paul talked to maggie and told her that? i m not claiming that, mr. waters. that s the fact, that s what happened. we re hearing that now, correct? hearing what now? what you just said. you just asked me.
work. it just you couldn t you could detox, but you couldn t but i couldn t i couldn t stay off of them, and so i promised paul that as soon as his as soon as we finished with his criminal case that i would go to rehab. and and on this particular occasion, paul knew that his mom
me. and after they found those pills in may, that being maggie and paul, were they trying to get you to self-detox? no, sir, not at that point in time. they just let it go. ? no, they didn t let it go but at that point in time, pawpaw and i had already had a discussion based on i can t remember exactly when it was but there had been a previous occasion a good while back where there had been a previous occasion where either maggie or paul had found pills and paul had come to me and asked me
pills. all right. and so she obviously told paul and paul texted you, correct? about finding those pills? that s correct. in may of 2021. that s correct. you have heard your sister-in-law say he called him the little detective about the pills. you heard that testimony in this courtroom? i did hear that. did they start to watch you like a hawk and get on you about your pill usage during the month of may? no. they did not? no, mr. waters, this battle that i had with addiction, it had been going on for years, years. and so they had been watching me like a hawk for years before may. may was just one occurrence where i let them down.
don t look for hogs in the daytime, all right? that just the hogs are deep in the swamp in the daytime so i can tell you that paul and i were not riding around looking for hogs. but what we were doing is we were going from food plot to food plot and we were looking for hog signs, all right? what a hog would be is come out and root and tear up food plants and they tear up everything. and so that was one of the things we were doing. but we were not hog hunting. we were not looking for hogs. we did not have the 300 blackout with us. paul didn t have the gun that blackout that he favored with him while y all rode the property? the gun that s in here? any rifle. there was no 300 blackout with me and paul. all you had was a .22. that was a pistol. we didn t have that with us at