“She was just crying so, so bad and she just hugged me for, you know, at least thirty seconds and she wouldn’t let go,” Wilson recalls. “And then when she let go she looked at me and she said, ‘Cuz, you dyin’ out here.’ I was like, ‘I ain’t dyin’!’ and she took out a mirror and showed me myself. I was like, whoa, who the hell is that? And I looked so bad, my skin was all patchy and dry and I’m a grown man and I was weighing a hundred and fifteen pounds.”
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Wilson was sick and tired of being sick and tired and didn’t resist when his cousin put him in rehab. While in rehab, his social worker was his angel. “She said, ‘I’ll help you. I won’t let your feet hit the ground.’ She got me a house, filled it up with furniture, everything, man. This woman I didn’t know from Adam.”
When he graduated from the program, that woman became his wife. Wilson and Mahin Tat have been married 20 years now.
He discusses all of this and more in his highly anticipated memoir, I Am Charlie Wilson (Simon & Schuster), slated for release June 30, 2015.
In the meantime, his latest CD, Forever Charlie, is in stores and you can catch his “Forever Charlie Tour” with soul brothers Kem and Joe.
See the emotional segment below:
“Uncle” Charlie Wilson Comes Clean To Steve Harvey About The Women Who Saved Him From Drugs (VIDEO) was originally published on blackdoctor.org
