Snoop Dogg’s daughter, Cori Broadus, is opening up about her lifelong struggle with lupus, a condition she says “snatched” her childhood away.
The 25-year-old, who welcomed her first child in March, appeared on Reginae Carter’s Heir Time podcast on Thursday (October 2), where she spoke candidly about living with the chronic autoimmune disease she was diagnosed with at just six years old.
“I feel like a lot of people still don’t genuinely know what lupus is, but from my understanding, it’s a chronic illness where your organs that are supposed to be helping each other and working together, they’re actually going against each other and attacking each other,” the R&B singer and entrepreneur explained.
Broadus described her battle with lupus as a “hell of a journey.”
“I feel like God doesn’t give us things that we can’t handle,” she said. “And I kind of just learned [that] this is what it is. And you blessed to even be able to tell your story, be able to work and do what you want to do. Take advantage of that.”
The Journals to Johnny singer opened up about how lupus robbed her of a normal childhood. “I always say it kind of snatched my childhood away from me, you know, ’cause I was so young and I never had energy,” Broadus shared. “I was always tired. I was always in pain. I was taking millions of medications. And at six years old, you can’t swallow pills. So that’s syringe after syringe.”
She went on to discuss the “side effects” that took a toll on her mental health, describing medication as a “temporary band-aid for whatever you’re dealing with.”
“So I feel like it took that childhood experience away from me because I was always in the hospital. I was always going to the doctors,” she recalled. “Like, I don’t even know what a jungle gym is, ’cause I never got to do that type of stuff. But it could always be worse, and it could always be better.”
Later in the conversation, Broadus reflected on how journaling as a child helped her process her emotions about lupus — a practice she continues today and shares through her vlog.
Back in January, Broadus shared that she had been hospitalized after suffering a stroke — an experience later addressed in her three-part reality special Snoop’s Fatherhood: Cori and Wayne’s Story.
