*Rapper OG Maco hit up Instagram over the weekend to explain his absence from the game is due to his battle with a flesh-eating disease known as necrotising fasciitis.
“So much healing has occurred thanks to God and my doctors that I’m willing to show ya’ll a fraction of what I’ve been going through,” Maco wrote alongside a picture of his severally scarred face.
“I was improperly treated for a minor rash and ended up with a skin eating disease for the last few months,” he continued. “This is the best it’s looked. I hope it gives someone hope. I’ve been going through this alone 90% of the time, without the support of the person I love, without most of my ‘friends,’ without anything but my own strength and God.”
Read his full Instagram post below.
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As noted by Complex, OG also detailed how having a bacteria eat away at his flesh led to depression.
“I know it took a lot to share any of that, because I’ve been going through this for about three months,” he explained in a video. “Everybody I really thought would be here, who I really thought I could depend on, weren’t there.”
Maco was previously hiding his face behind masks in his social media photos, but after a friend encouraged him to keep it real, he decided to show fans what he’s been dealing with.
“I was scared, I didn’t know what was going to happen, I didn’t know if I was going to lose my entire face… I almost did,” he said. “My friend told me the other day that maybe I should share what I’ve been going through instead of beating myself down for feeling how I felt about it, which I wanted to die a bunch of days.”
He ended the series of posts on a positive note: “Once I come out of this, better and more beautiful than ever, I want you guys to be ready… I’m gonna kick ass.”
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