Bow Wow has been reflecting on his hospitalization after suffering effects from being addicted to lean.
Speaking to The Art of Dialogue, the rapper and actor discussed the health issues he suffered as a result of his drug habit.
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“I was sipping lean,” he said. “I was sipping so much syrup. I said this after Mac Miller died. I spoke on this shit. I was drinking that shit like crazy.
“If you go back and watch The Road to Platinum series on BET, you’ll see so many white Styrofoam cups. I was losing my fucking mind. That lean shit had me fucked up. I was just always irritated.”
Bow Wow went on to describe the severity of his addiction which saw him drinking lean everywhere he went — to the point that fellow sipper Lil Wayne gave him a “baby bottle” full of the substance.
He also revealed the nature of his hospitalization: “We were on our tour, I was co-headlining with Chris Brown and the opening night was in Cincinnati and when I got off stage, I collapsed. I went straight to Cincinnati University Hospital. My stomach was so fucked up I ended up going back home to Atlanta after the first show.
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“I’m sitting in the hospital not knowing what the fuck going on, and I get back home and the shit gets worse. I’m throwing up, I’m shivering in the bed, I’m sweating, I’m going through it. I didn’t know I was having withdrawals. That’s how much lean I was consuming.”
He added: “I had to get right, man. God rest her soul, I had the best publicist ever, Pattie Webster. She put out a press release [that said I dropped out of the tour] for dehydration. Wasn’t no dehydration; I was fucked up off lean. That’s just good PR. We didn’t want the world to know that 18, 19-year-old Bow was heavy on the drank.”
The Like Mike star previously discussed his addiction problems after the death of Mac Miller in 2018.
“To the youth- Stop with these dumb ass drugs. Im going to let something out. When me and Omarion worked on FACE OFF album. I was high off lean every day,” he admitted. “When y’all saw me on BET going off on Torae, I was high off lean. My attitude everything changed.”
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He told fans: “Kick that shit! Be a good son or daughter. Be the best you. I’ma start being more vocal. We gotta save the youth from going out early. DRUG-FREE IS THE WAY TO BE! smarten up tighten up out here. We can’t lose no more of you. Not one! I love all y’all.”
