Sitting down with popular comedy-focused interview show Comedy Hype, comedian Tommy Davidson revealed that he left ‘In Living Color’ to seek help for a drug addiction problem.
While on a press tour promoting his new memoir, “Living in Color”, Davidson stated that he left the popular sketch comedy show at the height of his success. He claimed that it was a necessary move .
“I don’t make no excuses for nothing,” the comedian said. “It was just I had a problem, man. And it took me out, and if it wasn’t for me having good people around me, I’d be where Elvis [Presly] is, John Belushi is, [Chris] Farley. I’m grateful. I don’t even trip. It got to that point where I had to do something and life circumstances would come along… and you’ll throw caution to the wind to warnings. I seen the warnings all around my neighborhood. I seen addicts all my life. I seen people with alcohol problems all my life. All my life. And people would sit me down and say don’t you do that, and it wasn’t a conscious decision. It was just one of them things where there was a lot of opportunities available to me and I was in an emotional space where I was dependent on those things to help me deal with the present reality.”
Davidson went on to say he credits the show’s creator, Keenan Ivory Wayans, for puling him to side and urging him to get help. He eventually came back to show, but said it wasn’t the same after some of cast changes.
