Jeezy revealed a female babysitter molested him when he was a child.
The “Put On” rapper spoke candidly about his childhood trauma in a conversation with actress Nia Long released via his YouTube channel Tuesday.
Jeezy, 46, recalled the unnamed woman, who was older than him, “touching and doing things” to him that “don’t normally happen to kids.”
Long, 53, asked the Grammy nominee to clarify whether he had been molested, to which he responded, “Right, basically.”
“I was introduced to sex at a very young age,” he added in the “I Might Forgive… But I Don’t Forget” video, which is named after his latest studio album.
Jeezy then delved into another traumatic experience he endured growing up when he went to a neighbor’s house for a playdate and witnessed his friend’s father shoot his wife approximately four times.
“It just stuck with me,” the “Seen It All” rapper admitted. “Before I was 8, I had already accepted this was the norm. I was already desensitized.
“It gave me, like, this thing to always protect myself,” he said, to which Long added, “Because nothing felt safe.”
Jeezy also shared that he left home at 13 years old because his mom had allegedly “pulled a gun” on him after a disagreement and years of them feuding.
The honest dialogue comes as the “Soul Survivor” performer is going through a separation with his wife of two years, Jeannie Mai. He filed for divorce in September and said the marriage was “irretrievably broken.”
The filing seemingly came as a shock to Mai, 44, who was left “devastated” and with the hope that she and her estranged husband would reconcile.
“The truth is Jeannie wants her marriage to work and wants her family to be one solid unit,” a source previously told Pvnew.
However, Jeezy appears steadfast in his decision, telling Long that even therapy could not save the relationship.
“I can tell you that I’m saddened. I can tell you I’m disappointed. I can tell you that I’m uneasy,” the musician, whose real name is Jay Wayne Jenkins, shared.
“I can only do what I can do. I can’t expect someone else to do what I’m doing.”
Jeezy said he is on a “different” path than Mai, which is going to “entail for [him] to take care of [himself] and love [himself].”
The former “The Real” co-host also has been forthcoming about the childhood trauma she experienced.
In 2018, Mai shared on her talk show that she had been sexually abused by a family member when she was 9 years old.
“When it’s somebody you trust, somebody you know that you actually are supposed to love or believe in, you just freeze,” she said at the time.
“But if it took me two years or it took me 20 years, it does not invalidate what happened to me.”
