Bow Wow has opened up about battling an addiction to Lean and how it landed him in the hospital.
American artist and actor Bow Wow recently appeared on The Art of Dialogue Podcast, where he spoke about being addicted to lean. He said,
“I was on lean. I was sipping so much syrup.”
“I was drinking that s*** like crazy.”
He opened up about collapsing while performing on stage with Chris Brown.
“I went straight to Cincinnati University Hospital. My stomach was so f–ked up that I ended up going back home to Atlanta after the first show.” He said it got worse when he got home.
“I’m throwing up, I’m shivering in the bed, I’m sweating, I’m going through it.” He noticed he was “having withdrawals” from the lean. Bow Wow said it was a wake-up call for him to get well and quit lean.
“My stomach was so f–ked up. I felt like someone just had a knife [in me] … I never felt this type of pain in my life.”
He also credited his late publicist Patti Webster, who died in 2013, for keeping his addiction out of the public. She blamed his collapse on dehydration in a released statement.
‘[There] wasn’t no dehydration. I was f***ed up off lean. We didn’t want the world to know,” he said.
