*On Monday, March 5, the hosts of “The Real” welcome guest co-host Amara La Negra, and discuss last night’s Academy Awards! Amara also thinks the ladies should be the ones to set her up with someone, and lets them know what she’s looking for in a man.
Later, “Black Lightning” star Cress Williams stops by to talk about finally realizing his dream of being a superhero, and also shares the surprising story of kicking a drug habit he’d had for 20 years.
Amara La Negra Wants the Ladies of The Real To Help Her Find a Man!
The Drug Habit Cress Williams Kicked After 20 Years
The Drug Habit Cress Williams Kicked After 20 Years
Cress Williams: I was a crazy, crazy pothead for like…
Jeannie Mai: What?
Cress: 20 plus…
Adrienne Houghton: 20 years!
Cress: 20 plus years, yeah.
Adrienne: What?
Cress: And that was the thing, you know, like – you know, alcoholism, and you know, somebody’s addicted to heroin, or all these different things – it has a serious connotation.
Adrienne: Yeah.
Cress: But you know, when you say, “I was addicted to marijuana,” it has a connotation of just like… something funny.
Jeannie: Yeah.
Loni Love: Right.
Cress: So, I didn’t want to go to like meetings, it didn’t feel like that was what I wanted to do, and I just by accident started watching this show called Intervention.
Adrienne: Yes.
Cress: And you know, they deal with a different addiction every single week, and I saw, you know, heroin addictions, and crack addictions, and alcoholism, gambling, shopping addictions – all these different things. And I started to realize and see myself in them.
Adrienne: Wow.
Amara La Negra: Wow.
Cress: That really, the process, physically, mentally, is the same. So it was like, “There but for the grace of God, go I.” And so I felt like it was, watching it every day helped me to see like, if I don’t get control of this, that’s where I’m going. And I will get right back.
Loni: Wow.
Adrienne: Wow.
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