T.I. explained how he saved Creed's Scott Stapp from committing suicide during a recent interview with HipHopDX.
The Expeditiously host and the rock band's lead singer were both staying at Miami's Delano Hotel in 2006. After checking into his room, the rapper decided to have a smoke on the balcony before heading back to the lobby to request a better room. T.I. discovered Stapp lying on the patio after hearing the singer's groans.
"We go outside, smoke a joint and we start hearing, ‘argh,'" Tip described. "And I thought - [T.I.'s bodyguard] Phil was a heavyset dude - so I was like, 'Is you hungry mutha*****?' He's like, 'That ain't me, what you mean?' And I was like, 'Well, where is that s*** coming from?' And he was like, 'I don’t know.'
Then, I start noticing that’s a human! My first instinct was, I looked down, right? I turn around, and the patio was half-covered. So when we walked out to the uncovered area of the patio and look up, right there on that part that covers the sliding door was Scott Stapp. I didn't know who he was yet. He was just a white man, hurt. The first thing he said was, 'I can’t believe she did it to me' or something like that. I said, 'Huh, what are you talking about?' And he told us that his wife or girlfriend, somebody, had slept with his best friend, something like that."
In a previous interview, Stapp explained that he jumped 40 feet from his balcony after a drug binge made him feel like he was in an insane asylum. The rock star suffered a fractured skull, broken hip, and nose as a result of the fall.
After discovering Stapp, T.I. called for help and tried giving Stapp some life advice until the ambulance arrived.
"My thing was, 'Man, if it go down like that bro, she weren't worth a damn no way,'" Tip said. "'She wasn’t worth having if it go down like that. You learned everything you needed to know, and now you can move on.' Another thing he kept doing was thinking about all the times and all the stuff he'd done. I was like, 'Bro, that shit over with, you've got to let that go. That's what f****** you up, right there. Think about all the time that's ahead of you, not all the times that's behind you.' We talked until the people got up there and they got him down. And I hadn't seen him anymore. I didn't know he was the lead singer of Creed. I just thought he was a random white man in South Beach."
Later in the interview, T.I. describes preventing another suicide in 2010.
Source: HipHopDX
