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*In her debut memoir, “The Last Black Unicorn,” Tiffany Haddish shares her unbelievable journey of being placed in foster care when she was eight-years-old after her mother, Leola, suffered a brain injury in a car accident and became violent towards her.
Five years after the accident, Leola was institutionalized after being diagnosed with schizophrenia and in her memoir, Haddish expressed hope of one day earning enough money to provide for her mother’s needs at home… something she now says she has achieved.
“I’m mostly taking care of my family right now,” she tells GQ magazine. “I just got my mom out the mental institution.”
The comedian and actress said industry contacts have helped her obtain the best professional care.
”Once you start making it in the business, you start meeting all kinds of people that (have mental problems), and they link you up with the best psychiatrists.”
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Explaining how all her earnings are spent on her family, she adds: “Literally all my money goes into my grandmother and my mother. I got a two-bedroom apartment and moved my sister in so she could be monitoring (our mom). I got nurses for my mom. My grandma bumped her head and had to have her brain drained, and she’s dealing with Alzheimer’s. I’ve got meal services coming to the house for her and for my mom.”
In her autobiography, Tiffany explained how her mother became abusive after her injury, and how she had to care for five younger siblings.
“After the accident, oh my God, she would say the worst things to me, like ‘You look like your ugly a** daddy, I hate him. I hate you,'” she wrote. “She couldn’t get all her words out, so she’d just punch me. Just full on. Because of her I can take a punch like nobody’s business. Teachers would ask, ‘Why’s Tiffany’s lip busted?’ I didn’t say anything. As bad as she was to me, I still couldn’t help but love her.”
Her mother was eventually arrested after an altercation with a neighbor, and doctors diagnosed her with schizophrenia.
Tiffany and her siblings were initially placed with foster families before eventually being reunited with their grandmother.
If you think her story is dramatic just from reading it, wait ’til you watch her tell it to Charlamagne Tha God and the “Breakfast Club” via the player at the top of the page. Whoa!
