This week it was revealed that rapper Nicki Minaj made the cover of Vogue Magazine's December issue [click here if you missed that].
In her interview Nicki speaks candidly about her past addiction to Percocet...
From People Magazine
Nicki Minaj is opening up about her experience with addiction.
The Queen of Rap, 40, speaks candidly about her past Percocet use in Vogue’s new December cover story, revealing that she was prescribed the opioid to treat painful menstrual cramps years ago.
“No one told me that this was a narcotic and this was addictive,” Minaj, who began taking the drug even when she wasn't in pain, told the fashion magazine. "Luckily I was able to ground myself. But — once an addict, always an addict. I feel like if you’ve ever experienced addiction to anything, which I have, you always have to think twice and three times about the choices that you make."
In the Vogue story — for which she posed with her and husband Kenneth Petty's 3-year-old son — the “Anaconda” rapper also looked back on how her father Robert Maraj's addiction to crack cocaine during her childhood has informed her perspective on substance abuse. “I feel like I will always consider myself to be just like my father,” she said.
“I think about watching my father go back and forth, and I just wish that at the time I understood that he wasn’t doing it because he wanted to," Minaj (whose real name is Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty) added. “Now I realize, those people weren’t making those choices because they wanted to hurt their family. Addiction took over their bodies and their lives. They were victims too.”
The performer’s father died in a hit-and-run car crash at age 64 in February 2021.
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