Flav Flav is now 3 years sober from cigarettes.
Flav Flav took to his social media to celebrate a major sobriety milestone. The Public Enemy rapper struggled with addiction over the year, and now he details fans about major sobriety milestones.
The rapper revealed that he is now 3 years clean from cigarettes, and soon will be 3 years sober from alcohol. “IMPORTANT!! I’ve changed. Today I am 3 years clean from cigarettes that I started smoking when I was just 6 years old,” he wrote. “Soon I’ll be 3 years sober from alcohol. And I’ve been 15+ years sober from drugs. I’m proud to share my sobriety journey, and Thankx to my friends and family and those who support me.
He continued, “To everyone out there struggling with addiction, it is a real battle you fight every day. But I’m still here, and you know what, I DID IT, and if I can do it, anyone can do it!!! To every media outlet that tries to capitalize on my goodwill trending topics and bring up my past or old interviews for sensational clickbait headlines, do better and bring up my future.”
“Allow for people to grow and change in a supportive manner, and Don’t let anyone hold you to your past, I wear the clock, my clock goes clockwise, not counterclockwise, Look forward, not backwards.”
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In a previous interview with DJ Akademiks, Flav revealed that he used to spend around $2,400 a day on drugs. “I kind of maintained myself very well while I was on that sh*t. Not only that, but I kept it hidden,” Flavor Flav tells AK. “So, a lot of people didn’t really know. They were trying to figure it out. ‘Is he on something?’ Because I never actually let people know what I was doing.”
He continued, “I started letting people know what I was doing when I was tired of being like that. There’s a point in time in life where you get tired of doing sh*t. Mainly, when it doesn’t get you no place. There was a time I was spending $2,400-$2,600 a day for six years straight. You do the math. That’s how much I spent on drugs. I ain’t gonna lie, I sold a lot. But I was my best customer. I had a lot. I had a lot of money at the time, too. I was doing wrong things with my money.”
