Tyler Perry Reveals Being Su*cidal In His Childhood Years

Tyler Perry

Tyler Perry Reveals Being Su*cidal In His Childhood Years

Tyler Perry opened up about wanting to end his own life as a kid.

After receiving the Paley Honors Award on Wednesday, the filmmaker delivered an emotional acceptance speech about his past.

He then expressed having “suicidal” feelings as a child and that his “earliest memory” was “being very young [and visiting] jail, with my mother and my sisters behind bars.”

“I didn’t even know what this memory was until my aunt told me about my mother trying to leave my father,” Tyler Perry added. “And we were driving to California from Louisiana in her car, and it was in his name. So he reported the car stolen, and we all were arrested and sat in the jail, waiting for him to come.”

Tyler Perry detailed the abuse that he and his mother met at the hands of his stepfather, Emmitt Perry Sr., whom he recognizes as his father, although Tyler’s mother revealed later in life that the two were not related.