Eve opens up about a “dark period” she went through.
For many of us, we know Eve as one of the most successful rappers in the 2000’s, who paved the way for many females in the Hip Hop game. But sadly, once her career began to slow down, Eve didn’t know how to cope with it well, and ultimately fell into a deep depression.
Eve recently appeared on The Talk as a co-host, where she discussed her past of self-deconstruction, “At a time in my life, at a point in my life, I’d gone through, and like she says, a dark hole.” (Eve was referring to Willow Smith’s revelation that she began cutting herself after her music career started to takeoff.)
“I call it my ‘dark hole’ period, my dark period. I was out of a toxic relationship, I didn’t have a TV show, I didn’t have a record deal. I was just kinda like, what is happening with my life? So I started drinking, a lot.”
The “Love Is Blind” rapper also began abusing prescription drugs, “I started drinking, and drinking, and drinking because I didn’t want to deal with my emotions. I didn’t have anybody to really talk to. I was even popping Xanax and drinking to numb my pain.”
“I just felt like I was coping, but I really wasn’t. You know, you think of harming yourself as cutting or something, but drinking and drugs is exactly the same thing in many ways.”
After her 2007 DUI arrest, Eve decided to get her life together, “And it took my DUI, and I’ve talked about this on the show before, I got a DUI, and it took my DUI to wake me up because I had to wear one of those ankle things. And I didn’t want to because I knew it would force me to deal with my ‘S’, my stuff, and I did, and thankfully, I did and was able to get healthy.”
“I prayed myself through it. I finally started figuring out the things that I needed to do to make myself healthy.”
