Kai Wright
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I almost didn't take in the third part, right?
He had a life, a young life, as complicated as his long name.
Born in December 1940 in Peoria, Illinois.
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.
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