August 17, (THEWILL) – Popular American rapper, Dwayne Carter Jr aka Lil Wayne, says he attempted suicide at the age of 12.
Now 38, Lil Wayne disclosed this during a conversation on mental health with Emmanuel Acho on Sunday’s episode of “Uncomfortable Conversations.”
“When you have no one to vent to, no one to get this out to, you can’t bring it to your friends at school because you’re still trying to be cool to them,” he said.
The music star also disclosed that he struggled for two years of his adolescence before his mother discovered that he had been skipping school.
He also disclosed that he attempted to take his own life at just 12 years old because he thought his mum would chastise him from rapping.
According to Wayne, he called the police then went into his mother’s bedroom to get her gun.
He initially held the gun to his head but got scared and instead decided to shoot himself in the chest, aiming for his heart.
“I didn’t feel a thing,” he recalled.
His attempt at killing himself changed his family’s perception of his aspirations towards music.
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