Nivea opens up about her struggles with drugs.
After BET aired the 15 minute interview with r&b singer Nivea about her life and where she has been, she opened up a little more about her cocaine addiction. She sat down with M+M+M show and let it all out.
“I’m a be honest. I did everything late,” she told hosts Mr. Mecc and Krystal Lavenne. “I didn’t smoke weed until 2010 after I stopped breastfeeding my youngest son. The pill thing I can’t do. I drink though. I had to stop that. Brown liquor—I’m a whiskey girl —has sugar in it and it makes you freakin’ fatter. I had to stop that. But yeah, I like to drink. I smoke weed here and there. Never no needles, no crack. I’ve done coke. But no pills. That’s it.”
Nivea went on to discuss how the use of cocaine caused her to withdraw and almost made her give her kids to ex-husband The Dream.
“My experience with cocaine, that wasn’t something I felt public with where people want to party. It didn’t do none of that for me. It was more of a mental thing. I had a different reaction than most people. I wanted to be alone. It was a personal drug. I wanted to write, play Sudoku, it put me in my head.”
“I come from an addicted family; both of my parents were on crack,” she shared. “My mom got off and my dad struggled over the years, and recently, over the past year, went to rehab, but that was the last 30 years of my life. The struggle is real. I was real caught up with the cocaine situation. It was pretty bad.
“I pulled myself up out of it, though. In the midst though, I knew that was something I was allowing to happen, which was dangerous and reckless, but I knew I was going to come out of it somehow. Even though sometimes it got tough, and I was like, ‘Damn.’ I talked to Dream about it. I was about to give the kids up, which I think helped me. Because without them, I would have died … I can’t live without all of them. I need them for air.”
We are more than glad that Nivea has overcome her addiction and is in a great space in life.
To hear the full interview click below.
