Thirteen years after quitting rap, Diam’s agreed to speak again on the occasion of the release of his documentary Hello. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Faced with questions about this, the former rapper made the following update on Instagram: “My depression, my suffering, my quest, my rebirth: a film? an entertainment ? (…) I was touched that people were interested in my background, but it was impossible for me to let strangers speak for me. So I took up the pen again. The one with which I have always liked to indulge (…) There is certainly the story of Diam’s behind the woman I am today, but it is also a human story, and a quest that can echo the story of so many people wondering how to find inner peace while lost in the maze of life”.
If the end of his career broke his heart because it was like a breakup with his audienceDiam’s managed to get his head above water by quitting rapping and focusing on religion and his family life.
Indeed, Diam’s had sunk to the point of staying several times in a psychiatric hospital. Moreover, she spoke about it in the columns of the Parisian. “You have to understand that I touched madness with my finger. I was mad. I lost my mind. I was shot by drugs that turned me off and then disinhibited me. “I can only talk to a shrink for twenty minutes a day, whereas I want to talk for five hours! I feel like I’ve come back from death. I should have been dead.” Generally, artists are no longer there to tell us why they fell into addictions, like Amy Winehouse, why they shot themselves in the head, like Kurt Cobain. If I hadn’t opened the Koran one evening on a beach in Mauritius and found meaning in my life, I think I would have really fucked myself up. At that time, I was still fighting for my people who were telling me hang in there But me, I had the impression that everything was in vain” recounted Vitaa’s BFF. A peace that is therefore priceless.
GZ
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