Snoop Dogg’s daughter Cori Broadus is opening up about her health struggles.
The 25-year-old, who attempted suicide in 2021, recently shared what led to that moment.
“I’ve always wanted the pain to go away,” she told Us Weekly in an interview published Wednesday. “You get to a place where you’re like, ‘Enough is enough.’”
“We think the easiest way out is to just end it when it’s really not,” she continued. “Being on a 5150 hold in the hospital, having supervision to go to the bathroom, [having] somebody sitting in a chair to make sure I don’t do anything, and then going to a mental facility, it was definitely an eye-opener for me.”
As for why she decided to share her experience now?
“I’m such an open book,” confessed Broadus. “So many people reached out to me [saying they’re] going through the same thing. [People are like,] ‘How could you want to kill yourself? You have this perfect life.’ All of that materialistic stuff doesn’t go with you when you die, right? I want to speak about certain things that people may not speak about.”
In the premiere episode of the E! docuseries “Snoop’s Fatherhood: Cori & Wayne’s Story,” Broadus revealed how being diagnosed with lupus at the age of 6 impacted her mental health throughout the years.
“Since a little girl I’ve always been depressed, I’ve always been ‘why me?’” Broadus said in the Thursday episode. “Just being young and sick with lupus, it was hard. Going to the doctor’s all the time, taking blood pressure medications. So once COVID hit, I was just in a dark, deep space.”
Lupus is an autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissues, per the Mayo Clinic. The condition has no cure and can be difficult to diagnose because its symptoms also mirror similar diseases.
Snoop, 53, and wife Shante Broadus’ daughter also touched on becoming suicidal at one point during the pandemic, and how the mental health facility helped her treat her depression.
“I was in a mental facility because I tried to commit suicide in 2021,” said Broadus.
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The musician added that her fiancé, Wayne Duece, is a massive part of her support system.
“I am so lucky to have Wayne, but still, we’re all going through something,” Broadus explained. “It will be okay, and it does come with time. I feel like, when we’re in a certain space or place, it feels like the end of the world.”
In the episode, the star, who goes by the moniker Choc when she releases music, revealed that she coped by throwing herself into the launch of her cosmetics line, Choc Factory.
“I was like, ‘OK girl, you gotta get out of this s—,’ ” Broadus recalled during a confessional. “And so I looked online at hobbies and lip gloss makeup came up. I was like, ‘I love a lip gloss moment.’ I’m like, ‘That will be bomb, let’s do that.’ “
Later in the series, the artist spoke with her best friend Itali Miller about how she manages her lupus and puts her mental health first these days.
“I’ve been off my medications for four or five months now,” Broadus told Miller. “Went to the doctor and my labs looked better than ever. I’m still very, very tired, but my body doesn’t ache as much.”
Over the years, Broadus has been candid about her medical issues and treatments, detailing in January that she experienced a “severe” stroke, which forced her and Duece to put their wedding plans on pause.
In September 2023, she told People that she made the choice to stop taking lupus medication and try holistic treatments instead, including exercising more and taking herbs, sea mosses and teas.
“I’ve been good, better than I’ve ever been,” Broadus said at the time, noting that she chose the “all-natural” approach because her current routine was making her “feel like I was going insane.”
“I’ve had medication since I was 6 years old, depending on these drugs all my life. So I wanted better for myself,” she elaborated. “I wanted to change because it just became a lot. I’m only 24 years old, taking 10 to 12 pills every single day. So I kind of just went cold turkey.”
“I have days where I’m sick, but I’m still blessed and able to do what I love to do and to tell my story,” Broadus continued. “But then there’s days I’m like, ‘Wow, I wish I wasn’t sick. What would my life be if I was just a normal girl?’ It’s part of being human. You’re going to have bad days, you’re not going to always have good days.”
