Mary J. Blige Says She Was “Depressed And Didn’t Want To Live” In New Documentary
The iconic Mary J. Blige recently got candid about a touch moment she faced throughout the beginning of her career. In her new documentary, Mary J. Blige’s My Life, on Amazon Prime, Blige opens up about dealing with depression.
“It’s what I was living, what I was going through, what I’ve been through since I was a 5-year-old little girl… just so much hell,” said Blige. “I had to show people where all this pain came from that was in the ‘My Life’ album in the first place, and how can I get it out… and why it’s not coming out.”
She reveals she dealt with substance abuse and even had suicidal thoughts.
“Man, it’s a lot of responsibility, because these testimonies are like, ‘Whoa, I don’t have that much power,’ but you know, it was my life, that’s my testimony, and just all the dark things that I was going through that pulled other people out,” she added.
Blige adds that her 1994 debut album “My Life” was “my darkest album, like one of the darkest times I have had. Most of the time I was just depressed and didn’t want to live.”
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The tell-all documentary “Mary J. Blige’s My Life” is on Amazon now!