Ginuwine recently did an interview with Essence.com and talked about how he tried to commit suicide multiple times and was also dealing with an addiction (which I didn’t even know):

ESSENCE.COM: Your album is typically you with an all-star lineup, but folks are accusing you of  swagger-jacking Justin Timberlake because of the Timbaland-produced anthem “Get Involved.” How do you feel about that?
GINUWINE: (Laughs.) Are you serious? If that’s copying Justin Timberlake I want to know whether people say the same thing about him when he hooked up to work with Tim, whom I’ve worked with for years? People are real funny.

ESSENCE.COM:  On a more serious note, you lost both your parents in 1999 and 2000. How have you been coping?
GINUWINE: After my father shot himself to death and my mother died from cancer less than a year later, I really didn’t want to be here anymore, I didn’t want to live and tried to commit suicide more than once. There was no one around that I really loved at the time, so I turned to the drinking and drugs like weed and ecstasy. I was done mentally and emotionally to the point that I had to go see a psychiatrist, but that didn’t do any good because I wasn’t interested. In fact, the two times I visited him I was high. I was depressed and felt like I had nobody to talk to that could relate to me.

ESSENCE.COM: Wow. What was the turning point for you?
GINUWINE: I had one friend who intervened and begged me to get help. Even though I didn’t continue with my therapy, I went to church and received counseling from my pastor and got straight spiritually. I was able to turn away from all those things that were destroying me and finally think clearly. I had to ask myself whether or not I wanted to go out like my dad and have my kids hurt the way I was hurting. I’ve been clean for about seven years. Now, I keep all that stuff away from me, especially when I’m on the road. (Source)

LOL @ Ginuwine copying Justin Timberlake. WHAT?! Elgin Lumpkin was doing Timbaland while Timberflake was in DIAPERS! LOL. People need to get out of here.

Anyway, Ginuwine’s album is supposedly out June 23rd. I’d heard “Get Involved” previously, but after a couple of spins I can get into the dancey-ness of it LOL. And I miss Missy!

I had no idea Ginuwine was dealing with all that…you just never know what is going on with folks “behind the blogs”. Seriously.