 His book, and it's important to take all this with a grain of salt because memoirists have a way of taking poetic licenses with their pasts, but he grew up in a troubled, broken family. His parents got divorced when he was very young. His mother struggled with drug addiction. He was raised primarily, as he writes in the book, by his grandparents, who he calls Meemaw and Pawpaw. He spent his summers growing up returning to Kentucky.