*Marlon Wayans shared his struggle with depression after mourning the loss of nearly 60 family members and friends within a three-year period.
“When you talk about real-life pain, like parents passing, and you can get through that set and you can still be irreverent, edgy, crazy, silly, thought-provoking, and vulnerable, I think that’s growth,” Wayans told The New York Times,
The actor admits to experiencing a delicate mental state after losing his parents, Howell Stouten at 86 in 2023 and Elvira Wayans at 81 in 2020.
“I miss my parents dearly, but I’m a different human with my parents gone than I was when they were here. Now I’m a man. I don’t have parents anymore, so I live differently. I understand the quality of life,” he continued.
“I pray more, because when I pray I feel like I’m speaking to my parents and that they’re listening. I let them know what’s going on,” Wayans added.
His mother’s death hit him the hardest, saying it “shattered [him] into a million pieces.”
“That was my girl,” Marlon said.
His close relationship with his mother is why he never got 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.”
Most recently, the actor/comedian opened up about his transgender son Kai in a new interview on “The Breakfast Club” radio show.
“I talk about the transition, not their transition, but my transition as a parent going from ignorance and denial to complete unconditional love and acceptance,” Wayans said his eldest child, age 23, who was born female but now identifies as a male with They/Them pronouns. “And I think there’s a lot of parents out there that need to have that message, and I know I’m dealing with it. It was a very painful situation for me,” he added.
The father of two is sharing his journey to help families become more accepting of their trans children.
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