Marlon Wayans talks about the battle against depression

*Marlon Wayan shared his struggle with depression after mourning the loss of nearly 60 family members and friends within a three-year period.

“If you’re talking about real life pain, like the death of parents, and you can go through that situation and you can still be irreverent, edgy, crazy, silly, thought-provoking and vulnerable, then I think that growth is,” Wayans said. The New York Times,

The actor admits that he is experiencing a delicate mental state after losing his parents, Howell Stouten at the age of 86 in 2023 and Elvira Wayans at the age of 81 in 2020.

‘I miss my parents very much, but now that my parents are gone, I am a different person than when they were here. Now I’m a man. I no longer have parents, so I live differently. I understand the quality of life,” he continued.

“I pray more because when I pray, I feel like I’m talking to my parents and they’re listening. I let them know what’s going on,” Wayans added.

His mother’s death hit him hardest, saying it “shattered (him) into a million pieces.”

“That was my girl,” Marlon said.

His close relationship with his mother is the reason he never married.

“I never got married because I never wanted my mother to be jealous of a woman,” Wayans said. “I never wanted my mother to feel second to any woman.”

The actor/comedian recently opened up about his transgender son Kai in a new interview on the radio show ‘The Breakfast Club’.

“I’m talking about the transition, not about their transition, but about my transition as a parent, from ignorance and denial to complete unconditional love and acceptance,” Wayans said to his eldest child, 23 years old, who was born a woman but now identifies as male. They/their pronouns. “And I think there are a lot of parents who need to get that message out there, and I know I relate to it. It was a very painful situation for me,” he added.

The father of two shares his journey to help families become more accepting of their trans children.

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