Kai Wright
speaker
819 appearances
18 recordings
7 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 6 Jul
Kai Wright’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He grew up in a brothel.
Oh, okay.
Like an actual brothel.
His mother was a sex worker.
His father was a pimp and a boxer.
Whoa.
And his grandmother, you know, was really who raised him.
She was, like, the big personality in his life.
He called her Mama.
He talked about her a lot throughout his career.
And here is, again, his daughter, Rain Pryor, talking about Mama in that 2006 documentary.
Yeah.
And not surprisingly, you know, he was sexually abused as a child if you grew up in that environment.
And then at age 14, gets thrown out of school because they discover he lives in a brothel.
That's right.
You need help.
Go.
So, you know, so, yeah, he gets kicked out of school.
And he does, though, go and find sanctuary in this place, this community center in Peoria, where he meets what he calls the angel in his life.
It's this woman who's a drama teacher and sees real potential in young Richard Pryor and starts coaching him and giving him opportunities to perform.
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