Comedy saved me, says Trevor Gumbi in heartfelt interview on his drug addiction
Openly speaking about his battle with substance abuse several times, Trevor Gumbi has given one of his most heartfelt interviews yet describing how comedy saved him.
"Comedy saved me. I had no direction for my life back then and I'm grateful that I found it. Who knows where I'd be. Still folding clothes at my retail store job? Still working the counter at my late night petrol station job? Or my still working the phones at my highly lucrative insurance sales job? I don't know. But I'm happy with where I am right now."
The funnyman opened up to Joburg Style magazine about growing up in poverty and not having a father figure in his life.
"Telling jokes and laughter have been a safe place for me from my daddy issues, bullies at school, fights in the location and the sexual molestation I suffered at the hands of my teenage male neighbours, which were all covered up by trying to make others laugh or to be in funny conversations."
Trevor, who proudly posts all the things he gets up to with his two boys says his single biggest achievement is being a dad.
The issue is available now.