Charlamagne tha God Opens Up About His Depression & Childhood Trauma!

I didn't realize it until I got older. I was just a young kid. And I was Molesting. Ooh shit.

Please welcome Charlemagne the Guy, co-host of The Breakfast Club and America's most influential radio host. Growing up, my father was telling me if you don't change your lifestyle, you're gonna end up in jail, dead, or broke. The problem was he wasn't practicing what he was preaching. When I started selling drugs, I found out he was selling drugs, then he had an affair on my mom. So I became a player because I felt I had to be like my pops. But then I ended up getting in a situation where a shooting happened and then going to jail. But I was able to finally wake up and I was smart enough to realize whatever I want to be doing five years from now, I gotta start doing now. And then the microphone ultimately changed your life. They didn't know that you had 12 years of rejection. I got five four times. I just collected my last unemployment check. I was scared to death. But you can't live life with fear, you gotta live life with faith.

Next gig I got was the Breakfast Club. Fast forward three, four years, I'm having more success than I've ever had in my life, but I just was not happy. I was losing myself. And um Those suicidal thoughts just cross your mind for no reason. You know, and even even

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