Comedian, Mike Epps, has spoken about his past traumas and how he sought to use cocaine to cope. In the course of an interview on All The Smoke, the comedian shed light on his struggles with fame and revealed that he had “survivor’s remorse” after making it out of the hood and into Hollywood.
This development, he said, led to complicated situations as his future attempts at reconnecting with them usually didn’t go as planned.
According to the Indiana native, he used drugs to treat the intense guilt of leaving his homies behind.
“I’ve been on drugs, I’ve been through hell…” he was quoted as saying. He further revealed that most of his movies were done when he had cocaine in his system. Epps disclosed that when shooting the movie, All About The Benjamins, he used to sit in Ice Cube’s trailer and cry adding that Ice Cube would usually come to console him.
Touching on comments made by Katt Williams on Shannon Sharpe’s podcast earlier this year, Epps said he prays for his fellow comedian, as there is no telling how dangerous the people Williams exposed could be.
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The Friday After Next star also indicated that the possibility that someone could also harm Sharpe isn’t out of the question, hence his decision to make peace with him.
“I’m a comedian, man, we supposed to be laughing. Comedians are dark people, man, like Katt Williams, I pray for that brother, man. I pray for him because that’s some serious sh*t. The sh*t that he did on that podcast. We better hope that all the people he said ain’t no killers cuz he ain’t gon know who hit him.”
Talking more about his fears, Epps noted that such dangerous people have money and connections, and all it usually takes is one of them to wake up one morning and say, “Yeah, that’s it.”