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Amber Rose Confesses She 'Tried Selling Crack' To Feed Her Family
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Jan. 16 2019, Published 1:52 p.m. ET
Amber Rose got candid about her past as a drug dealer on January 15, 2019. The model revealed that she had to sell crack before she became a stripper in order to make money for her family.
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Amber, 35, told The Red Pill podcast, “I tried selling drugs. I tried selling crack in my neighborhood.”
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She admitted that her time dealing was short-lived because people thought she was “too pretty” and would get robbed. “So, what I did – I would bag it up for them. I would weigh it and bag up the crack rocks for them,” she said.
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Amber admitted that she didn’t tell anyone because of the stigma surrounding her choices to earn money. She told Van Lathan, “It’s been nine years since I been famous, I never told that to nobody. Yeah, I was a stripper and I did what the f**k I had to do to feed my family.”
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The Amber Rose SlutWalk founder added, “It was a hard time in the beginning, and I became a stripper very young. I made that decision, nobody in my family put that on me.”
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Amber continued, “I don’t really think people understand how ‘hood I grew up.” She also added, “My life has never been easy.”
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