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Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero
On Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero, no topic is too heavy, no story too raw. Through powerful conversations about resilience, perseverance, and beating the odds, Louis and his guests confront life’s toughest challenges head-on. This is a space for unfiltered honesty, real growth, and relentless inspiration—because when it comes to overcoming adversity, nothing is off the table.
Episodes
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroI Was Addicted to Gambling for Decades | Here's How I Quit
Louis Ruggiero welcomes Hugo Vrsalovic to Nothing's Off the Table for a powerful conversation about gambling addiction recovery, alcoholism, and the reality of…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroI Took a Painkiller | Then I Started Spending $800 a Day on Drugs
Louis Ruggiero welcomes Keri Walsh to Nothing's Off the Table for an honest conversation about drug addiction, opioid addiction, alcohol addiction, relapse…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroHarvard Kicked Me Out Because Of My Drug Addiction
Louis Ruggiero welcomes Emma Gray, a Harvard graduate and sober lifestyle advocate who has been sober for nearly 11 years, for an honest conversation about…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroI Lost Over $100,000 Gambling | Here's How I Finally Stopped
Louis Ruggiero welcomes Alyx Effron, a recovering compulsive gambler, for a powerful conversation about gambling addiction, online blackjack addiction, sports…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroI Got My Brother Hooked To Heroin | Here’s How We Stopped
Louis Ruggiero welcomes his longtime friend, best man, and recovery mentor, Dean Moses, to Nothing's Off the Table for a powerful conversation about heroin…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroEx-Cop: I Saw Murders | Then Gambled To Escape The Memories
In this episode of Nothing Is Off the Table, Louis Ruggiero welcomes Sharon Mabon, a retired police lieutenant, author, and recovering compulsive gambler, who…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroEx-Cocaine Addict Explains What Cocaine Psychosis Feels Like
Louis Ruggiero welcomes David Millar for an honest conversation about addiction recovery, cocaine addiction, sobriety, and rebuilding a life after hitting rock…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroI Lost Everything Gambling | Then Planned My Suicide
Louis Ruggiero welcomes Will Hinman for a raw conversation about gambling addiction, drug addiction, alcohol addiction, relapse, and what it actually takes to…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroI Was Living The NBA Dream | Then Cocaine Destroyed Everything
Louis Ruggiero welcomes former NBA player Chris Herren for an unfiltered conversation about addiction, recovery, sobriety, family, and life after basketball…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroHeroin Survivor | I Lost Everything Before I Asked God For Help
Louis Ruggiero welcomes Zack Franck for a raw conversation about addiction recovery (5 years sober), heroin addiction, opioid addiction, overdose, relapse…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero100% Of My Income Went Straight To Gambling | Here's How I Quit
Louis Ruggiero welcomes Daniel Bullen for an unfiltered conversation about gambling addiction, compulsive gambling, and what it actually takes to rebuild your…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroI Hid My Alcohol Addiction Behind Modeling And Traveling
Louis Ruggiero welcomes Sophie Sumner for an honest conversation about her sobriety journey, alcohol addiction, recovery, self-worth, and the life she has…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroHeroin Made Me Rob A Jewelry Store | Here’s How I Got Sober
Louis Ruggiero welcomes Jimmy Abbate for a conversation about heroin addiction recovery, life after prison, and 25 years in recovery. Jimmy shares how…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroMy Daughter Was in the Hospital | I Was Home Gambling
Louis Ruggiero welcomes Joe Pizzimenti for an honest conversation about gambling addiction, sports betting addiction, and rebuilding a life in recovery. Joe…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroI Tricked 3 Doctors To Feed My Adderall Addiction
Louis Ruggiero welcomes Anthony Scamardella for an honest conversation about his eight-year battle with Adderall addiction, the progression from a legitimate…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroRecovering Gambler | I Turned $200 Into $100,000 Then Lost It All
Louis Ruggiero welcomes Uri Edell for an open conversation about gambling addiction, sports betting addiction, and what it takes to finally choose recovery…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroAI Girlfriends Could Create A $20 Billion Addiction Crisis
Louis Ruggiero welcomes Craig Perra for a raw conversation about addiction recovery, sex addiction, porn addiction, behavioral addiction, trauma, shame…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero7.5 Years Sober | How I Escaped OxyContin, Heroin & Sex Work
Louis Ruggiero welcomes Madeline for a raw conversation about heroin addiction, opioid addiction, psychosis, recovery, and what it actually takes to rebuild a…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroAlcohol Addiction | “Doctors Told Me One More Drink Could Kill Me”
Louis Ruggiero welcomes Raquel Herrera for an honest conversation about alcohol addiction, drug addiction, relapse, grief, faith, and what it really takes to…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroGambling Addict | "I Gambled Over $2 Million Before I Finally Stopped"
Louis Ruggiero welcomes John Bonatesta to share his story of gambling addiction, how betting became part of his life at a young age, and how it eventually…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroAlcohol Gave Me Stage 2 Liver Disease at 22 | Here's How I Got Sober
Louis Ruggiero welcomes Karina Miesner for a raw conversation about alcohol addiction, alcoholism recovery, and what it took for her to rebuild her life after…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroLoving An Addict Turned Out To Be The Best Decision Of Her Life
Louis Ruggiero welcomes his wife, Mia Ruggiero, for one of his most personal conversations yet. For the first time, Mia shares what Louis’s addiction recovery…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroI Wanted to Drink Myself to Death | Then I Found God
Louis Ruggiero sits down with Mike Shooty to discuss Mike’s journey from alcoholism, repeated relapses, DUIs, damaged relationships, and losing his will to…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroI Overdosed on WATER & Went Into a Coma Because of Drugs
Louis Ruggiero sits down with John Rokee to trace his journey from childhood pain and early substance use to severe addiction, rehab, legal trouble, and a…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroHistorian EXPOSES How DraftKings & FanDuel Engineer Gambling Addiction
They know everything about you. That's not a conspiracy theory — it's the business model. In this episode, I sit down with Jonathan Cohen, award-winning…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroFormer Heroin Addict | Why Getting Sober Is NOT Enough to Stay Sober
Louis Ruggiero welcomes Corey Warren for a raw conversation about addiction recovery, heroin addiction, alcoholism, relapse, faith, and what it actually takes…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero"I Didn't Leave My House For a Year" | John Scafiddi Jr on Depression, Weed & Getting Your Life Back
He didn't leave his house for a year. Smoked weed, watched shows, and told himself he was fine — while his whole life sat on pause. In this episode, I sit down…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroHe Lost SIX FIGURES in 35 Minutes | Then the Casino Offered Him a Free Room
He walked into Parx Casino with a school bag full of money that wasn't his. 35 minutes later, it was gone — and the casino's response was to offer him a free…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroHe Robbed His Own Mother for Crack | Now He's 38 Years SOBER
In November of 1987, Dan Ryan was a broken man. He'd spent most of that year living between crack houses, under bridges, and in the back of a friend's van. He…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroI Was a Heroin Addict in Kensington | Now I'm 13 Years Sober
Westley Morris was supposed to be a farm boy. His family still owns a 500-acre working farm in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Instead, addiction took him to the…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroFamous at 18, Psych Ward at 25 | Jonah Marais (Why Don't We) Tells His Sobriety Story
Jonah Marais of Why Don't We sold out Radio City Music Hall before he could legally drink. Behind the boy band fame, chart hits, and millions of fans was a kid…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroMy 3-Year-Old Daughter Ate My Weed Gummy |The Day I Finally Got Sober
Tyler Ramsey was living the dream on paper — a Wall Street career that started at Bear Stearns, a sprint to Los Angeles, a family, a future. Underneath it all…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroKidnapped, Robbed at Gunpoint, 25 Rehabs | How Ashley Finally Got Sober
Ashley Moore survived things most people wouldn't. Addicted to heroin and speed almost immediately after her first use, she spent 9 years in the grip of it —…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroWhat His Wife Put in the Pizza Box Changed Everything | Compulsive Gambler with 5 Years Clean
Eugene K. was a New Yorker with a bookie in his pocket. Sports betting, casinos, roulette at 18 — and a family lineage of compulsive gambling he didn't learn…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroJAILED AT 18, GAMBLING FOR 40 YEARS | Sal's SHOCKING Gambling Addiction & Recovery Story
Sal walked into his first Gamblers Anonymous meeting at 18 years old — in 1986. He answered 18 out of 20 questions "yes." He'd already battled a serious…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroFrom Heroin, Homelessness & Level 4 Prison Yard to 13 YEARS SOBER | SHOCKING Recovery Story
Garet grew up in Santa Monica with no education, no voice, and nowhere to put the anger. So he did what addicts do best — he silenced it with drugs and…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroPro Baseball Player Ran a $32 Million Ponzi Scheme to Feed His Gambling Addiction
Sam Favata was a professional baseball player with a promising career — until a devastating injury changed everything. What followed was a gambling addiction…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroA Handle of Vodka a Day Put Her in a Coma at 30 | How Adriana Finally Got Sober
At 30 years old, Adriana was in a coma with liver failure and cirrhosis. Doctors read her last rites and her family signed a DNR. She survived — then went back…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero"Love Island Star Opens Up | Suicide Attempts, Addiction & How He Got 4 Years Sober
Cormac is an Irish-born fitness coach, model, and former Love Island USA cast member — and he's now nearly four years sober. In this raw, no-holds-barred…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero"I Lost $20,000 in 15 Minutes" | A Gambling Addict's Brutal Confession
Adam Joseph spent over a decade as a compulsive gambler — losing $5,000 to $10,000 a week, blowing $20,000 in a single 15-minute blackjack session, and hiding…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero"He Shot Me Up With Heroin For The First Time" | Surviving Addiction, Prison & 7 Years Sober
"He shot me up with heroin for the first time" — and that single moment sent Lauren G. into a years-long battle with addiction that nearly cost her an arm, a…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero"I Started Gambling at 11 Years Old" | He Stole Wallets, Did Jail Time & Got Hooked on Crypto Casinos
He placed his first bet at 11 years old. By 21, he'd stolen wallets, done jail time, and burned through everything chasing the next bet on underage crypto…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero"I Thought I Couldn't Overdose" | 16 Years on Heroin to Sober
For 16 years, Jessie thought she was the exception — that she was too smart to overdose, that the heroin, the chaos, and the dangerous people would never…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroLamar Odom’s SHOCKING Story: The Coma, Khloe Kardashian & The Night That Almost Killed Him
Lamar Odom sits down for one of the most raw, honest conversations we've ever had on Nothing's Off The Table. Two-time NBA champion. Sixth Man of the Year…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroHer Kids Found Her Passed Out at a 0.47 BAC | Anne's SHOCKING Story of Alcohol Addiction
A 0.47 blood alcohol content. Five rehabs. Three kids coming home from school to find their mother passed out. In this episode of Nothing's Off The Table…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroGambling Addiction Almost Killed Him by 28 | Anthony’s SHOCKING Gambling Addiction
Anthony Natoli was 12 years old when he placed his first bet. By his late 20s he was living a "perfect" six-figure tech sales life in San Francisco — while…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero"I Overdosed in My Father's Car — Then Begged Him to Drive Me to Rehab"| Alan’s SHOCKING Story
What does it take to survive 14 trips to rehab, a fentanyl overdose in your own father's car, and still find your way back? In this raw, unfiltered episode of…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero"‘Mom, What Are You Snorting?’ | Jodi’s SHOCKING Recovery After 10 Years of Secret Opioid Addiction
For 10 years, nobody knew. Not her parents. Not her friends. Not even her children. In this powerful episode of Nothing's Off the Table, Jordi shares her…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero“I Snorted Heroin While My 2-Month-Old Daughter Slept…” | The SHOCKING Truth About Heroin Addiction
In this shocking episode of Nothing’s Off the Table, Andrew shares the raw truth about addiction, heroin, overdoses, crime, recovery, and nearly losing…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero“I Gambled Until I Lost My Mind” | The SHOCKING Truth About Gambling Addiction
Jordan Freeman opens up like never before in this brutally honest conversation about addiction, gambling, Xanax abuse, alcohol, recovery, rehab, relapse, and…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero“I Was The Bottom Of The Barrel Drunk.” | Addiction Nearly Took Everything
In this powerful episode of Nothing’s Off the Table, Louis Ruggiero sits down with Caitlin for a raw, emotional, and honest conversation about addiction…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero“I Lost Everything to Gambling at 15…” | Jimmy’s Gambling Recovery Story
In this episode of Nothing’s Off the Table, Louis Ruggiero sits down with Jimmy — a compulsive gambler with 14 years in recovery — for one of the most honest…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroPorn, Toxic Love & Trauma | The Therapist Warning Everyone About Modern Relationships
For the first time on Nothing’s Off the Table, Louis sits down with a therapist who specializes in trauma, codependency, love addiction, sex addiction, and…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero“I Was Dying Inside” | How Addiction & Depression Nearly Destroyed Her Life
In this raw and emotional episode of Nothing’s Off the Table, Louis Ruggiero sits down with author and recovery advocate Carly Schwartz to talk about…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero“The Drugs Stopped Working… But He Couldn’t Stop.” | Addiction Nearly Killed Him
Ben W thought he had everything under control. The partying. The cocaine. The drinking. The New York City lifestyle. Until addiction completely took over. In…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero“I Lost Everything to Heroin… Then This Happened” | From Addiction to Recovery
This is one of the most raw and powerful addiction recovery stories we’ve ever shared. In this episode of Nothing’s Off the Table, Matt Fleming opens up about…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero“I Went on 3-Day Benders… Now I’m 21 Years Sober” | Addiction, Sobriety & Fatherhood
“I Went on 3-Day Benders… Now I’m 21 Years Sober” | Addiction, Sobriety & Fatherhood Michael Chernow’s story is proof that no matter how far you’ve gone… you…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroHeroin, Crack & Trafficking | The Moment That Saved Her Life
She was homeless, addicted to heroin and crack, and trapped in sex trafficking… until the moment that changed her life forever. In this raw and emotional…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero“I Went Through a Dead Guy’s Pockets...And Then Went To Get High.” | Addict to 10 Years Sober
“I just went through a dead guy’s pockets… and then went to get high.” That moment changed everything. In this episode of Nothing’s Off the Table, Dave Marcus…
Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis RuggieroNFL Star Kayshon Boutte Lost $80,000 in ONE Day | Gambling Took Over His Life
NFL wide receiver Kayshon Boutte opens up about his gambling addiction, losing $80,000 in a single day, and the hidden reality inside professional sports. In…