Terry Crews addresses his past mistakes while lamenting 'everything gets you canceled'

Terry Crews ventured out for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic first struck the United States to go on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and the 52-year-old multi-hyphenate had a lot to get off of his chest.

Crews' visit was prompted by new audiobook Stronger Together that he wrote with his wife of 32 years, Rebecca, with whom he has five children. The former NFL player-turned-Hollywood mainstay called the project the unofficial sequel to his 2014 memoir Manhood—allowing his wife to speak for herself as to how she stood by him through a porn addiction, controversial "Black supremacy" tweet, and, as he put it, all the mistakes that were made in their marriage, "mostly by me."

"I like to make my mistakes publicly," Crews said. "I'll be honest with you. I'm focused on just improving, but this is the problem, is that you're not allowed to do that. Even now. Everything will get you canceled. Everything gets you canceled. But I realized the only way to really grow is to try and make your mistakes on the fly."

The Brooklyn Nine-Nine star later added: 

"There were times when I did [miss porn]. I'm good now. But I have to tell you this, too. Porn and the alcohol, different things like that, people think it's a will power issue. But it's not. It's literally a lack of information issue. ... The trick is you think it's great, and everything works for you until it doesn't. And that is one of the things I really wanted to get out. We talked about this stuff in Manhood, but everyone was asking, 'Well, what does his wife think about this?!'"

Crews first revealed his porn addiction in 2014, and the couple discussed the repercussions on Dr. Phil in 2018: