Lil Wayne Opens Up About His Attempted Suicide at Age 12, Shares Advice for Parents

Lil Wayne discussed battling mental health issues at a young age and attempting suicide at age 12 in a new interview

was playing on the TV screen that he could spot in the mirror."I was like, 'You know what? Start thinking I had to get myself mad and noticed that I didn't have to.' That's what scared me. How I knew I had mental health problems was I pulled the trigger," he said.

He described how he kept lying on the floor, noticing the white walls and ceiling and convincing himself he was seeing the white light he believed as a kid was what one see when one dies. Wayne remembered the knocking on the door had stopped, and he described mustering up the energy to slide his body across the bloody floor to the door and kick it to signal to the cops that someone was inside.

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