Dave East Says He Stopped Drinking Lean Out of Fear It Would Kill Him: “It Scared Me” [Video]

Dave East is opening up about his battle with lean dependancy.

The “Handsome” rapper sat down with the My Knowledgeable Opinion podcast with Math Hoffa, the place he touched on his dependence on the syrup, which lasted about three years. The state of affairs grew to become so dire that East felt he’d ultimately lose his life.

“You know what was starting to f**k with me, the cramps…I had a doctor explain this to me: it dries your intestines up…it dehydrates your body,” he recounted the physician telling him. “That used to scare me cause I could be chilling, sipping, go to sleep — and wake up with the shit that’ll put me on the floor. Get out the bed and balled up in real pain.”

East would expertise extreme abdomen aches that might wake him up from his sleep, sending him falling to the ground. This was one of many motivating components in kicking his dependancy.

“And I went through that getting off the sh*t, so in my mind, while that was happening…[I] go ‘if this is the pain I’mma feel every time I don’t got this s**t, I can’t f**k with this s**t,” he defined.

East revealed he just lately misplaced a detailed buddy to lean dependancy, who was one of many few folks round him who additionally loved utilizing the substance, which East in comparison with “dope.” The 35-year-old says others in his circle throughout that point interval “hated” his dependancy.

“I’m falling asleep, I’m supposed to be watching her,” East recalled of how his dependancy affected his means to care for his daughter, Kairi. “Her mom…she might be like, ‘yo I gotta run to the store real quick, wake up, watch her’… and Kairi wide awake and I’m nodding… I don’t know what she doing… that started to scare me.”

Whereas it’s unclear when East formally stopped consuming lean for good, the rapper says he’s glad to have give up as a result of he has two younger daughters who would drastically endure if he have been to perish from dependancy.

“Imagine I check out right now, God forbid,” East stated. “Off of something that we just enjoy.”

Glad to see Dave is in a wholesome and completely happy state.