Hip hop star August Alsina has revealed he is struggling with liver disease and is ‘sicker than ever’.
The 24-year-old singer admitted he has an autoimmune disorder that affects his liver, in an emotional interview with his close friend Jade Pinkett Smith.
The New Orleans native, who spent three days in a coma after collapsing onstage in 2014, said he was having a ‘hard time’ accepting what doctors are telling him
‘I’m sicker than ever and having a hard time accepting what I feel and what the doctors are saying is most true,’ he wrote alongside it.
‘After sitting down and talking with my fathers, mother and sister, they explained to me that sickness and illness runs in my family.
My father and grandfather both died of severe illness. But they were FIGHTERS and that’s all that matters. Just ride with me is all I ask,’ he concluded.
‘The reality is that I’m sick all the time,’ he told the actress in the interview.
‘I don’t really like to talk about it because I’m not looking for anybody’s sympathy. Don’t treat me like I’m a f***ing cancer patient, because I’m not.’
He added: ‘I feel a sadness and depression that is embedded into my DNA.’
