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I knew it was messed up, but his childhood sounds bad.
On being raised in poor conditions in Lufkin, a Bible Belt town of 35,000:
“Crackheads in my house, potato chips and peanut butter for dinner – my life was (expetive) all the way to college. ... I’m talking at least 15 people. You’d be lucky if you had a Hot Pocket for dinner. We used to eat at Salvation Army on the regular, when the neighbors couldn’t help us out.”
Rolling Stone points out that Bryant was largely raised by his brother, who also happened to be his uncle. More on Bryant's turbulent upbringing in this Dallas Morning News piece.
On his mother, the oldest of eight children by six fathers. She was impregnated at 14 by her mother’s boyfriend, MacArthur Hatton, who’d also sired two of Angela’s siblings. She sold crack to help support the family and spent a brief time in jail:
“The drug game wasn’t going how it should go, I guess, and she would get mad and take it out on me. Hit me with a pipe and threw a car amp at me – slashed me across the back. ... We never, ever had that guidance, as far as report cards and homework. We just did whatever the hell we wanted to do."
The magazine points out that Angela is now clean and re-married (to a woman). Bryant discussed his mother's sexual orientation and their relationship in a Dallas Morning News piece.
On how he started football, by stealing his first equipment:
“Me and my mom went down to the field to sign me up. But when they told us that we needed, you know, to pay for the equipment, we...well, we didn’t have the (money). ... But I swear on my life, I was blessed that day. There was this abandoned trailer, and on the stoop outside, I seen these shoulder pads and helmet sitting there. The craziest (expletive) was, they actually fit me. I stole those, man. I stole ’em and I played."
Dez Bryant details 'crackheads in my house,' turbulent childhood in Rolling Stone cover story
On being raised in poor conditions in Lufkin, a Bible Belt town of 35,000:
“Crackheads in my house, potato chips and peanut butter for dinner – my life was (expetive) all the way to college. ... I’m talking at least 15 people. You’d be lucky if you had a Hot Pocket for dinner. We used to eat at Salvation Army on the regular, when the neighbors couldn’t help us out.”
Rolling Stone points out that Bryant was largely raised by his brother, who also happened to be his uncle. More on Bryant's turbulent upbringing in this Dallas Morning News piece.
On his mother, the oldest of eight children by six fathers. She was impregnated at 14 by her mother’s boyfriend, MacArthur Hatton, who’d also sired two of Angela’s siblings. She sold crack to help support the family and spent a brief time in jail:
“The drug game wasn’t going how it should go, I guess, and she would get mad and take it out on me. Hit me with a pipe and threw a car amp at me – slashed me across the back. ... We never, ever had that guidance, as far as report cards and homework. We just did whatever the hell we wanted to do."
The magazine points out that Angela is now clean and re-married (to a woman). Bryant discussed his mother's sexual orientation and their relationship in a Dallas Morning News piece.
On how he started football, by stealing his first equipment:
“Me and my mom went down to the field to sign me up. But when they told us that we needed, you know, to pay for the equipment, we...well, we didn’t have the (money). ... But I swear on my life, I was blessed that day. There was this abandoned trailer, and on the stoop outside, I seen these shoulder pads and helmet sitting there. The craziest (expletive) was, they actually fit me. I stole those, man. I stole ’em and I played."
Dez Bryant details 'crackheads in my house,' turbulent childhood in Rolling Stone cover story
