Kai Wright

And, you know, he has this moment where his manager describes it as, like, he's trying to deal with his guilt for the crime of being Richard Pryor, whatever the hell that means.

I have no idea what that means, but that's what he's experiencing in the moment while he's on this, like, binge.

And he takes a...

Bottle of 151 proof rum that I guess he's drinking while he's on this day's lunch.

Okay.

He pours it over his head, and he lights himself on fire.

A fireball erupts, engulfs his body.

Because the freebase cocaine also has these volatile substances in it.

You know, flames cover more than half his body.

He runs out of the mansion, past his security, out the gates, runs down the street, a streaking ball of fire.

I mean, it's awful.

That's terrible.

It's horrific.

And, you know, he somehow survives this.

Horrendous burns.

He has six weeks of recovery.

I want to play some of that documentary from 2006 again, where people in his life try to make sense of this moment.

And so you're going to hear from his daughter again, and his son now, and from his, like, closest collaborator in comedy, Paul Mooney.

So here's that.

He wanted to end his life.