An emotional confession. Stacey Dash broke down crying on camera after learning that rapper DMX died more than one year ago.“I was strolling [sic] through #tiktok and found a #DMX song that has saved me many times,” the Clueless star, 55, wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, August 31, alongside an emotional video of herself reacting to the news. “Suddenly it says #RIP i know I am late, i did not know he passed away, he #OD I am heartbroken – he was such a great guy.”In the clip, Dash explained that the news hit her particularly hard because she has also struggled with substance abuse and addiction in the past. “I’m ashamed.
I didn’t know DMX died. I didn’t know … from a cocaine overdose” she explained through tears. “I am today six years and one month clean.
It breaks my heart.”Dash concluded her video with an overwhelmed plea to her followers: “It breaks my heart [that] he lost … to that demon of addiction.
Please don’t lose.”The “X Gon’ Give it to Ya” rapper — whose real name was Earl Simmons — died at age 50 after suffering an overdose in his New York home in April 2021.
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