{"id":37319,"date":"2015-07-06T14:56:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T14:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/za\/2015\/07\/06\/trevor-gumbi-opens-up-about-his-cocaine-addiction\/"},"modified":"2015-07-06T14:56:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T14:56:01","slug":"trevor-gumbi-opens-up-about-his-cocaine-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/za\/2015\/07\/06\/trevor-gumbi-opens-up-about-his-cocaine-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Trevor Gumbi Opens Up About His Cocaine Addiction."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  wp-image-12155 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/trevor-gumbi-drugs.jpg\" alt=\"trevor gumbi drugs\" width=\"332\" height=\"498\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Being a celebrity isn\u2019t as easy as people think. It takes constant hard work, you\u2019re constantly hearing people critique your work, and there\u2019s always worried about becoming irrelevant. <\/p>\n<p>Add to this the fact you\u2019re constantly chasing the buzz and high you feel when you see thousands of people cheering your name, it\u2019s easy to understand why so many celebrities deal with substance abuse. <\/p>\n<p>Usually, you\u2019re able to battle your addictions in private with help from family and clinics like recoverydelivered.com but when you\u2019re in the public eye, it\u2019s usually obvious when something is wrong with people\u2019s favorite celebs.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ --><\/p>\n<p>Trevor Gumbi being one of them.<\/p>\n<p>The actor and comedian was recently interviewed on <em>Vuzu<\/em> about the struggles he faced when he was fighting his addiction against cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <em>Vuzu<\/em>, Trevor told them that he\u2019s glad that he can finally spend and enjoy some quality time with his family: \u201cI can enjoy my kids. My mind is clearer, I can rememeber things and damn, it\u2019s awesome, man.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He then revealed that he only started using drugs because he honestly had nothing else to do with his money but to sniff it all up. \u201cI think my negative impact with that would have been I was earning too much money with very little responsibilities. I guess I didn\u2019t have\u2026 much to keep my mind off it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well we\u2019re honestly happy that Trevor is now drug free and has overcome his addiction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\">(function(d, s, id){\n\t\t\t\t\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\t\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\t\t  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\t\t  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2\";\n\t\t\t\t\t  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a celebrity isn\u2019t as easy as people think. It takes constant hard work, you\u2019re constantly hearing people critique your work, and there\u2019s always worried about becoming irrelevant. 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