Nearly one year after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, Gucci Mane detailed how being undiagnosed nearly destroyed his mental health.
The “Lemonade” rapper was spotlighted on the Tuesday (May 26) episode of ABC News’ Nightline, where he discussed his new memoir Episodes, and how his mental health episodes affected his life.
“The episode is a brief daze, up to a week, to a month, of me not really thinking rational, hearing voices and not being myself, and at the same time doing things that are super irresponsible,” Gucci told ABC’s Byron Pitts.
“It’s a total loss of control,” he continued. “It starts building like a snowball.”
Gucci, who revealed his diagnoses in Episodes, which was published in 2025, recalled an example of his spiraling mental health being in 2013, when he was close to fighting a stranger at Lenox Mall in Atlanta. Gucci’s wife of 9 years, Keyshia Ka’oir, was also on the Nightline and named his “different personalities” during episodes, like “Jason,” named after fictional villain Jason Voorhees.
The rapper also discussed his infamous ice cream face tattoo, which he got in 2011. “I really felt numb, and I kept getting tattoos to try to feel something,” Gucci explained. “I don’t know if I wanted to get a feeling or a reaction out of myself to drive me out of something, but it just got more and more extreme and led to the ice cream tattoo.”
Gucci, however, no longer regrets the ink and calls it “a part of who I am.”
During an episode of The Breakfast Club last year, Ka’oir discussed the lengths she goes to in protecting her husband during episodes and shared that she’ll occasionally delete his social media apps so he doesn’t post haphazardly.
