Tyrese Gibson has a rule he never breaks: zero alcohol, zero drugs, not even a real cigarette in front of cameras.
He explained it bluntly: his mother was an alcoholic for 27 years, and he learned to fear not the first drink, but everything that comes after. “That sip leads to a glass, that glass to a gallon, and that gallon to alcoholism”, he said. To him, every drop is a direct step toward becoming the person he watched suffer in his own home.
The curious thing is that Tyrese does not judge people who drink socially. On the contrary: he says that at any party, sober and with a clear mind, he is the one who ends up dancing harder than anyone else. His sobriety is not a limitation; he turned it into his way of maintaining control over a family history he decided not to repeat.
