Dwyane Wade Says He Still Has Mom's Letters From Prison, 'I Read Them Sometimes'

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It's been decades since Dwyane Wade's mom was in prison, but he just revealed to TMZ Sports he still has all the notes she sent him from her time behind bars ... and he still reads them to this day.

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00:00So, Mr. Wade, I got to ask you, right?

00:03My dad's been incarcerated since I was 12.

00:06And I've been writing letters to him for many years.

00:08What was it like as a young kid being your mom's pen pal?

00:11What was it like for her to say that on air yesterday?

00:14Like, did she get emotional?

00:16When we was writing letters to each other?

00:18I mean, it was the greatest pen pal that I've ever had to be able to like,

00:23you know, have a connection still to my mom.

00:26You know, even though she wasn't there in the physical,

00:30we still had like a connection, we still shared things.

00:33Right.

00:34So she was still there for me, and I knew that she was going to get out.

00:37And so I just wanted to be there for her as much as I could as well.

00:40So I still have the letters.

00:44No way.

00:44I still have the letters.

00:45So I go back and I read them sometimes, you know, to see like,

00:48no matter where you go in life, you always got to go back,

00:50you got to take a look, you know, to appreciate things.

00:52Now, what message would you give to anyone who might be dealing with that?

00:55A lot of young people follow you and look up to you.

00:57What's your message to them if they have an incarcerated parent?

01:00I mean, you know, we're all going to deal with things our own way.

01:04You know, I just say the biggest thing is my mom, I knew she needed my love.

01:10I knew she needed, my family knew she needed our love.

01:13We wanted to make sure she came home to us.

01:15And, you know, I don't know, I haven't been inside there,

01:18but I definitely knew that it wasn't the life that she was living before she went in.

01:23So we wanted to make sure that she understood that it was love out here waiting for her.

01:27You know what I mean?

01:28And that, you know, we wasn't judging her.

01:30We wasn't pointing fingers at her.

01:32We just loved her.

01:33We just wanted her to come home to us.

01:34So that message kept her going.

01:37You know, we wanted her to be a grandmother.

01:39We wanted her to be, you know, a mother as well and all the things.

01:42So can we do a quick fit check to this?

01:45No, not with what I'm wearing.

01:46What? This is not bad.

01:48It's actually funky.

01:49I'm real chill.

01:49This is everything from my, from my, from my brand.

01:52This is all Wade gear.

01:53Where are you off to next?

01:54What are you guys coming up?

01:55I'll be here hosting today's show.

01:57That's what I'm doing.

01:57Is this going to be a regular gig?

01:59Because you've been here quite a lot.

02:01I mean, only if people really want me to be here.

02:03We do.

02:04Then they'll put pressure on NBC.

02:05That was me.

02:06That was me.

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