“I am a human being who makes mistakes and it doesn’t make me a bad person,” the rapper wrote
Flavor Flav is owning up to his mistakes — and moving forward. On Thursday, the Public Enemy rapper revealed that he recently relapsed after more than four years of sobriety, but shared his commitment to getting back on track.
“I remain authentic to who I am and a large part of the past 4.5 years for me has been my sobriety journey. I think I’ve been an inspiration to many that if I could get sober, anyone can do it,” Flav wrote on Instagram stories. “But just when you think it’s easy, it ain’t. I briefly relapsed. I say this to admit my mistake and publicly hold myself accountable.”
Flav has been open about his sobriety journey of the last few years and celebrated his four-year mark on World Mental Health Day by paying for fans’ online therapy. In a 2023 interview, he admitted he was spending up to $2,600 a day on drugs but would hide it from the public.
“I am a human being who makes mistakes and it doesn’t make me a bad person. I hope those who are around me support my choice to be sober,” Flav wrote in his Thursday statement. “I went back to Day 1, again. Time didn’t stop, my journey continues.”
Speaking with Akademiks on his Off the Record podcast two years ago, Flav shared that he “maintained [himself] very well” while he was doing so many drugs. “I guess God wanted me to live. And he knows that I’m a mouthpiece to the world,” he said at the time. “So, I feel that God let me live through that, so that way, I could teach people about the mistakes that I made. And hopefully, they won’t make them later on in life.”
