Music mogul Master P sat down for an interview with CBS Mornings on Friday to open up about his daughter’s fatal drug overdose. Speaking with Gayle King, the 52-year-old rapper said he is working to spread awareness on mental illness and substance abuse after the passing of Tytyana Miller.
“When I got that phone call I realized my daughter is never coming back, and that is the heartbreaking thing about this,” Master P told King during the interview. “I said, ‘Let me team up with these organizations and doctors.’ I want to help people that look like us. We want to bring awareness to [mental illness and substance abuse]. My whole purpose is to get out here and help and save millions.”
Master P said he’s going to turn his pain to passion.
“I’m gonna turn it into a purpose because I can’t get my daughter back. I love her and think about her every day, and it took me and my family to go through something that I just can’t stop thinking about, but I realize that I have to get out here and help and save other kids,” he said.
The grieving father said it was another one of his daughters who called him and broke the devastating news about Tytyana.
“It was the worst call that a parent can get,” he said. “My sympathy go out to everybody that lost a child.”
According to ET Online, Tytyana was one of Master P’s nine children. The former actress had an addiction for nearly a decade. She talked about her addiction while starring on Growing Up Hip Hop with her father and brother, Romeo Miller. The 29-year-old died due to an accidental overdose back in May.
Master P said his daughter was working to overcome her addiction and was trying to remain on “the right track” after getting out of rehab. She was also writing a book.
“It’s hard. … Coming from where I come from, coming from poverty, you would think that you would outlive your kids,” the rapper said. “I feel like, going to my daughter’s funeral, I feel like I went to my own funeral.”
Sharing advice for other parents, Master P said “talk about it.”
“Don’t hold this as a secret,” he said. “When you talk about mental illness and you talk about substance abuse, people don’t want to say, ‘This happened to my kid.’ But this is affecting us as Americans.”
