Bow Wow has opened up about his lean addiction while working on and promoting his joint album with Omarion.
During a recent appearance on “The Art Of Dialogue,” the Ohio native revealed that he was even hospitalized. “I was sipping lean. I was sipping so much syrup. I said this after Mac Miller died. I spoke on this s**t. I was drinking that s**t like crazy,” he said. “If you go back and watch ‘The Road to Platinum’ series on BET, you’ll see so many white styrofoam cups. I was losing my f**king mind. That lean s**t had me f**ked up. I was just always irritated.”
“We were on our tour, I was co-headlining with Chris Brown and the opening night was in Cincinnati and when I got off stage, I collapsed. I went straight to Cincinnati University Hospital. My stomach was so f**ked up. I ended up going back home to Atlanta after the first show,” Bow Wow continued. “I’m sitting in the hospital not knowing what the f**k [was] going on, and I get back home and the shit gets worse. I’m throwing up, I’m shivering in the bed, I’m sweating, I’m going through it. I didn’t know I was having withdrawals. That’s how much lean I was consuming.”
He added, “I had to get right, man. God rest her soul, I had the best publicist ever, Pattie Webster. She put out a press release [that said I dropped out of the tour] for dehydration. Wasn’t no dehydration — I was f**ked up off lean. That’s just good PR. We didn’t want the world to know that 18, 19-year-old Bow was heavy on the drank.” Check out the full conversation below.