She says that when she was a little kid, her mother suffered a head injury in a car accident and that after the crash, her mother acted differently towards her, even telling her she hates her and calling her ugly. Abused by Mom: Haddish's mom and grandmother raised her for much of her adolescence, after her dad left when she was 3. She said she would get people to read things to her and was able to "game school" because the rules were "bulls-t." She said school kids and her mother, step-father and grandmother called her stupid. Haddish said a teacher eventually found out she couldn't read and gave her private lessons.Ģ. Illiterate Until High School: Haddish writes that she "straight up could not read or write" and had a first or second grade reading level until the ninth grade, where she took AP classes regardless. Here are some of most shocking details from the book:ġ. The star, who grew up in South Central Los Angeles, details her experiences in her memoir The Last Black Unicorn, which hits stores on Tuesday. And now, she’s ready to inspire others through the power of laughter.Before she became famous, Girls Trip actress and comedienne Tiffany Haddish underwent many hardships, says she suffered abuse by her mother and now-ex-husband and was molested in foster care. Finally poised to become a household name, she recounts with heart and humor how she came from nothing and nowhere to achieve her dreams by owning, sharing, and using her pain to heal others.īy turns hilarious, filthy, and brutally honest, The Last Black Unicorn shows the world who Tiffany Haddish really is - humble, grateful, down-to-earth, and funny as hell. Tiffany can’t avoid being funny - it’s just who she is, whether she’s plotting shocking, jaw-dropping revenge on an ex-boyfriend or learning how to handle her newfound fame despite still having a broke person’s mind-set.
None of that worked (and she’s still single), but it allowed Tiffany to imagine a place for herself where she could do something she loved for a living: comedy. Or at least she could make enough money - as the paid school mascot and in-demand Bar Mitzvah hype woman - to get her hair and nails done, so then she might get a boyfriend.
If she could do that, then her classmates would let her copy their homework, the other foster kids she lived with wouldn’t beat her up, and she might even get a boyfriend. Growing up in one of the poorest neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles, Tiffany learned to survive by making people laugh. Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!įrom stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) personal essays, as fearless as the author herself. Biography & Autobiography, Essays, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)
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