*Lil Wayne has opened up about his mental health issues and attempted suicide when he was a kid.
In a new interview with Emmanuel Acho on his Uncomfortable Conversations series, the hip-hop star gets candid about wanting to take his own life when he was 12. As reported by Complex, he was going to use his mother’s gun to take his life.
“I picked up the phone, I called the police,” Wayne said, as reported by HipHop-N-More. “Yes I knew where she put her gun and it was in her bedroom. And so I went in her bedroom, grabbed the gun. I already made the phone call, looked in the mirror.”
Wayne pointed the gun to his head but “got a little too scared.”
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“Then I said ‘Fuck it,’” he explained, pointing a finger gun at his chest. “Biggie was on. I’m looking in the mirror, so you could look through the mirror and the television was behind me. So I was watching the video through the mirror. ‘One More Chance’ was on. And Biggie was already gone or something. So I was looking, I was like, ‘You know what?’ Start thinking I had to get myself mad and noticed that I didn’t have to. that’s what scared me. How I knew I had a mental health problem was when I pulled the trigger.”
He went on to say that he aimed for his heart but “didn’t feel a thing.”
Listen to Weezy talk about bouncing back from his mental health issues via the clip below:
Global superstar, Lil Wayne, opens up about his mental health struggles which led to his attempted suicide at age 12.
This brave and vulnerable conversation is for anyone who’s ever struggled with mental health.
Full episode: https://t.co/NP7pPvrrIb pic.twitter.com/ckcDFonm7Y
— Emmanuel Acho (@EmmanuelAcho) August 16, 2021
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