'Addiction doesn't go away,' Williams told The Times in 2017. 'It's an everyday struggle for me, but I'm fighting.'
"It was just a matter of time before I got caught and my business ended up on the cover of a tabloid or I went to jail or, worse, I ended up dead," Williams said."When I look back on it now, I don't know how I didn't end up in a body bag.
Williams credited the Rev. Ronald Christian, who was a prominent pastor at Christian Love Baptist Church in Irvington, New Jersey, with helping him get clean. Christian"I laid it all out. It was the first time I really laid everything out to anyone," he said in the 2012 interview."I was a total stranger to him, but I felt very comfortable with him."
Brandon K. Washington, 29, who has been a pastor at the church for the past three years, said Williams would make unannounced visits three or four times a year. "He came to the church under the previous pastor, and all the times he would come he would always reference his struggles," Washington said Tuesday."He was always confident with his relationship with God."
Washington said Williams would blend in easily with church members, whom he would greet with hugs and kisses. He would always pose for pictures on request, too.In February 2020, about a month before the coronavirus pandemic began, Williams"This Hollywood thing that you see me in, I'm passing through," The Associated Press quoted him as saying."Because I believe this is where my passion, my purpose is supposed to be.
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