Flavor Flav Used To Spend HOW MUCH Every Day On Drugs?!
31.01.2023 - 19:19
/ perezhilton.com
Flavor Flav is getting real about just how destructive drug addiction was in his life.
The Public Enemy founding member sat down with DJ Akademiks late last week for the Off The Record podcast. During the pair’s interesting long form chat, the 63-year-old rapper spoke in detail about his prior life lived in the years before he first got fully sober.
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For Flav, years of drug addiction consumed not just his mental and physical well-being, but it also controlled other aspects of his life, too. Most notably was the financial fallout. At the height of his drug use, Flav was ingesting cocaine, crack, alcohol, marijuana, and cigarettes daily, among other substances.
Flav revealed to Akademiks that this went on for “18 years straight.” And during the worst period, he was spending THOUSANDS of dollars a day to maintain a high:
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In the very worst points of addiction, Flav estimates he spent almost $1 million per YEAR on drugs. Thankfully, that is no longer the case in his life right now. But the physical (and financial) burden of those choices weighed heavy on him for a long time.
Flav reasoned:
In addition to using money he’d acquired from his music fame, Flav funded his habit by selling drugs to other people. But his addiction was so bad at points that he ended up being his own best customer, as he explained:
The rapper, whose real name is William Drayton Jr., worked hard to present himself “very well” through this difficult period in his life. For a while, he “kept it hidden” from those closest to him. But slowly, things unraveled.
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By the mid-2000s, he was ready