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Lil Wayne offers ex-police officer who saved him after suicide attempt aged 12 financial support for life
Lil Wayne is eternally grateful to the officer who showed him humanity after he attempted suicide (Picture: Rex)
Lil Wayne has repaid the kindness shown to him by a former police officer who saved his life when he attempted suicide, by offering him financial support for life.
The A Milli rapper recently opened up about how he tried to take his own life when he was just 12 years old, only realising then that he was battling mental health issues.
Wayne, now 38, managed to call the police before injuring himself and has never forgotten how one officer, Robert Hoobler aka Uncle Bob, who showed up to the scene, treated him with respect and humanity.
Hoobler has now revealed to TMZ that he met Wayne again in 2019 and the rapper offered to provide him with financial support if he ever needed it, telling the ex-officer that ‘all he has to do is say the word’.
Although he hasn’t taken Wayne up on his offer, the two are instead discussing how Hoobler could join Wayne’s team in ‘some sort of administrative capacity’.
Wayne, real name Dwayne Carter Jr, spoke to Emmanuel Acho on his podcast series Uncomfortable Conversations about the heartbreaking incident.
Recalling his suicide attempt while on a half-day from school, Lil Wayne said: ‘I picked up the phone, I called the police. Yes I knew where she [his mother] put her gun and it was in her bedroom. And so I went in her bedroom, grabbed the gun. I already made the phone call, looked in the mirror.
‘Then I said: “F**k it”. Biggie was on. I’m looking in the mirror, so you could look through the mirror and the television was behind me. So I was watching the video through the mirror,’ he explained.
‘One More Chance was on. And Biggie was already gone or something. So I was looking, I was like: “You know what?” Start thinking I had to get myself mad and noticed that I didn’t have to, that’s what scared me.’
He added: ‘How I knew I had a mental health problem was when I pulled the trigger.’
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Wayne also recalled how several officers stepped over him to get into the house to look for drugs or weapons but Uncle Bob said: ‘Do you not see the baby on the ground with this hole in his chest?’
The rapper added: ‘He picked me up and kept saying, “You’re not gonna die on me”. And so he brought me to the hospital. I met him years later and he said to me, “I’m just happy to see I saved a life that mattered”.’
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