So “She Can Be My Mama Again” Details inside!
Earlier this week, Haddish spoke with PEOPLE magazine to discuss the best year of her life and her new memoir, ‘The Last Black Unicorn.’
She talks about growing up in foster care, child abuse, and her marriage and explains how she followed her dreams and made it big, despite the roadblocks she faced along the way.
“I was told every day I’d never be nothing,” she said. “Now I look in the mirror and say, ‘Tiffany Haddish, I love and approve of you.’ It was all worth it.”
In her early years, her mother, who raised her alongside her grandmother in South Central L.A., got into a car accident that changed her life forever.
The accident occurred when Haddish was eight-years-old and left her mother with severe brain damage that led to schizophrenia.
Five years later, Haddish’s mother was taken to a mental facility and she and her four brothers and sisters were sent into foster care.
And now, she wants to use her success to help her mother better herself, in spite of.
“My mom is still alive, in a mental institution,” she wrote. “My goal is to get enough money to buy a duplex. I want to put her in one of the units and hire a full-time nurse to take care of her.
Then I want to get her whatever medications she needs so she can be my mama again. Honestly, that’s what I want in life.”
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