“We numb ourselves with drugs and alcohol and people and shopping and sh*t, to cover up what’s really going on inside. You’re taking drugs so you can go out and feel courageous, or go out and feel beautiful or whatever. You’re doing it to cover up something…[I needed to] kill the visual of what happened to me when I was five.”
Blige on her childhood sparking her drug addiction
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