Master P Opens Up About Daughter Tytyana Miller's Death and Her Battle With Addiction

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Master P is turning his family's heartbreaking loss into a mission. On Friday, the 52-year-old rapper sat down with Gayle King for  to open up about his daughter, Tytyana Miller's, death by drug overdose and share how he is working to spread awareness on mental illness and substance abuse.

Tytyana had been battling addiction for nearly a decade and shared her struggles while starring on with her father and brother, Romeo Miller.

In May, she lost her battle to an accidental overdose. She was 29.«It's hard. Coming from poverty, you would think that you would outlive your kids and that was the mission,» Master P, born Percy Robert Miller Sr., told King. «I feel like, going to my daughter's funeral, I went to my own funeral.»The former actress was one of Master P's nine children, eight of whom he shared with Sonya C, including Romeo, 32, Itali, 23, Inty, 29, Vercy, 30, Hercy, 20, and Mercy, 16.

The music mogul is also a dad to 25-year-old daughter Cymphonique from a previous relationship.The rapper revealed that he received the news of Tytyana's death from one of his other daughters, describing it as the «worst call a parent could get.» «My sympathies go out to everybody who lost a child,» the father of nine said. «I said, 'I'm gonna turn my pain into passion and I'm gonna turn it into a purpose because I can’t get my daughter back.' I love her and think about her every day, and it took me and my family to go through something that I just can’t stop thinking about but I realize that I have to get out here and help and save other kids.»He shared how Tytyana resolved to better herself, having just gotten out of rehab and attempting to remain on «the right track.» He revealed that the 29-year-old had even been writing a.