Bow Wow on His Cough Syrup Addiction_ Worst Sht I Ever Went Through in My Life _

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00:00 That shit was the worst shit I ever went through in my life.

00:02 Bow Wow is revealing more about his past addiction

00:05 to lean in an appearance on the Art of Dialogue podcast.

00:09 The 36-year-old reveals just how bad his struggle

00:12 got with the substance, which usually consists

00:14 of soft drinks mixed with promethazine

00:17 and codeine-based cough syrup.

00:19 I was on lean, and I was sipping so much syrup,

00:22 and I was drinking that shit like crazy.

00:26 Like, if you go back and watch, it's

00:27 called the "Road to Platinum" documentary series on BET.

00:30 If you watch that, you'll notice you'll

00:32 see so many white Styrofoam cups,

00:34 and you'll see so many Hawaiian punch bottles in the studio.

00:37 I was losing my [BLEEP] mind.

00:39 Like, that lean shit got me [BLEEP] up.

00:42 Then he hit a rock bottom he wasn't expecting.

00:45 I don't have an addictive personality.

00:48 So I'll never forget me and Chris, we were on our tour.

00:53 I was co-headlining with Brown.

00:56 The opening night was in Cincinnati.

00:58 When I got off the stage, I collapsed.

01:01 And I went straight to Cincinnati University Hospital.

01:05 I'm sorry, but my stomach was so [BLEEP] up, so [BLEEP] up,

01:08 that I ended up going back home to Atlanta after the first show.

01:12 So mind you, I miss Baltimore.

01:14 I miss Chicago, and I miss Detroit.

01:17 Like, these is big Bow Wow markets, like huge markets.

01:21 And I'm sitting in the hospital not knowing

01:24 what the [BLEEP] going on.

01:25 And when I get back home, the [BLEEP] gets worse.

01:28 Like, I'm throwing up.

01:30 I'm having-- I'm [BLEEP] shivering in the bed.

01:32 I'm sweating.

01:34 I'm going through it.

01:35 I go to the hospital again, bro.

01:36 This is summertime.

01:38 I pull up to the Gwinnett Hospital

01:40 here in Atlanta with, like, two hoodies on and sweats.

01:44 You know how hot it get in Atlanta?

01:46 I'm [BLEEP] freezing, bro.

01:48 Like, I'm-- I didn't know that I was having withdrawals.

01:53 That's how much lean we was consuming.

01:56 It just felt like somebody had a knife, bro.

01:58 And I never felt this type of pain ever in my life.

02:00 But I didn't know that I was having withdrawals from this

02:04 [BLEEP] and my body needed it.

02:05 But like I said, my mind--

02:06 I don't have an addictive personality.

02:08 I was consuming a lot, but I didn't

02:09 know that my body needed it.

02:11 That [BLEEP] was the worst [BLEEP]

02:12 I ever went through in my life.

02:13 In the interview, the celeb credits his late publicist

02:16 Patti Webster for helping him maintain his career

02:19 while he got clean.

02:21 You know, she ended up putting out a press release.

02:22 And you know, I was home in Atlanta.

02:24 I saw the news.

02:24 And they were like, Robert Bow Wow was hospitalized.

02:27 Meanwhile, I'm at home recovering.

02:29 And you know, for dehydration--

02:32 well, not dehydration.

02:33 I was-- I was [BLEEP] up off lean early.

02:36 Like, [BLEEP] up.

02:38 So if you look at that-- that article up,

02:41 it said dehydration.

02:42 I was capped.

02:43 You know, that's just good PR.

02:44 We didn't want to let the world know that 18, 19-year-old Bow

02:47 was, you know, heavy on the-- on the drink.

02:50 But we was.

02:51 We-- we-- we was.

02:52 And this isn't the only time he's

02:54 opened up about his struggles with substance abuse.

02:56 Following Mac Miller's death in 2018

02:59 from an accidental drug overdose,

03:01 Bow Wow shared an impassioned plea with his fans.

03:04 He tweeted in September of that year, "Kick that [BLEEP]

03:07 be a good son or daughter.

03:08 Be the best you.

03:09 I'm going to start being more vocal.

03:11 We got to save the youth from going out early.

03:13 Parents, watch your kids.

03:15 Explain to them.

03:16 We want y'all to live, man.

03:18 I almost died [BLEEP] with syrup."

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