Then came an ignominious encounter with the police after he drunkenly broke down the door of his girlfriend's apartment. Was this, I ask, when he hit rock bottom? Aldrin doesn't hold back: "When you've seen your family break up, then you get into an erroneous relationship, and you get married again, and that turns sour, then you're looking for some companionship, and that gets kinda complex, and somebody takes advantage in a way that really irritates you as a stalker and an obsessive… you really get kinda frustrated. And, if you're still drinking, you make some pretty dumb decisions."