'My dad was a drug dealer & I was a gangster but I stayed out of jail thanks to comedy,' says DOI star Darren Harriott
Darren talks about how he started to leave the gang life behindAs time went on, more people from other schools joined Darren’s gang and suddenly his pals were getting into the gang culture more seriously.“I didn’t have any beef with anyone like that but these are my boys, so we look after each other. That was the mentality.
He said: “Sometimes friends would say, ‘I pulled a knife on so and so’ and some of the gang would go out at night and rob people, stealing bikes at knifepoint. While Darren was already uneasy about the escalating violence, it was his own gang turning on him, on New Year’s Eve 2004, which finally made him walk away.
“I was embarrassed and ashamed, because when you’re in the gang you have an ego, but also really sad that I’d lost these people who were like my brothers.
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