The mom of Chicago rapper Jarad Higgins, known as Juice WRLD, produced a documentary and started a mental health foundation after her son's death.
"I'm learning just to cope. I'm learning to take it a day at a time, honor his memory. He would want me to be happy, he would," Wallace said.The rapper's mother said she wants his life to motivate those coping with addiction and mental health to get help before it's too late.
Juice WRLD, or Jarad Anthony Higgins, was raised in Chicago's South Suburbs, where Wallace still lives. "Jarad was a before-and-after-school kid. Summer camp, I had him in everything just to keep him busy," Wallace said."Growing up in grade school with ADD, it was a struggle. So when he made it to the point at Juice WRLD, I said, 'I get it.'""He was a mama's boy," Wallace said."He was a blessing."
Wallace started the Live Free 999 foundation. There's a crisis text line and free support services for those in the same pain her son suffered. The new HBO film"Juice WRLD: Into the Abyss" is a portrait of his talent and demise. Wallace was an executive producer for the film."I wish I knew it was as serious as it was," Wallace said."And a lot of people around him not really doing anything, enabling him. That was difficult to watch.""It has purpose. It has meaning," Wallace said.
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