Vanilla Ice is getting candid about a dark period in his life. The rapper revealed that he once thought he would be dead at 27 amid a battle with drugs.
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Speaking with "Hang Out with Sean Hannity", Vanilla Ice said that he was spiraling with drugs during his fall from fame. Eventually, he was able to overcome his addiction.
"Basically, that whole wave I was riding — 'Ice Ice Baby,' 'Ninja Turtles,' 'Cool as Ice,' movies, everything — and then all of a sudden I hit the shore. The wave just crashed," he said. "I almost joined the 27 Club, and it was right there. Twenty-seven years old. I couldn't figure out what I was doing. I never got to be a kid. I had to be a responsible adult, and I wanted to just enjoy being twenty-something. I never got to enjoy that."
Things got so bad that he wrote a suicide note. His friends discovered the note and helped him get the help that he needed.
Vanilla Ice Thought He Was Going to Die
"Whether you're famous or not, 27 is a hard age because your twenties are over. You've got the adult thing coming. Being an adult sucks. You've got to accept responsibility and be a lousy adult and wake up, drink coffee and deal with kids," he said.
"You have it really good until you get right there, and that's where the transition happens. The pressure... These kids in their twenties, especially today, they have to process way too many thoughts in their heads. They don't know where their future is going. They try to plan it and figure it out, and they can't."
Ultimately, Vanilla Ice said that he quit drugs and moved forward. It took him a while to feel comfortable enough to perform his hit song "Ice Ice Baby." His friends convinced him otherwise.
"[They] both said, 'Listen, you are who you are because of who you were... Accept it. You can't go back and change it. You have to be yourself now. That makes you who you are today.'"
Vanilla Ice also praised his mom for helping him as well.
"She said, 'Exactly. You need to put your dancing shoes on.' And I don't mean literally get up and start dancing. I mean get out there. Whatever problems you've got, dance your way through them because you cannot dance if you're miserable."
