Rapper Snoop Dogg’s 24-year-old daughter, Cori Broadus, said this week that she was hospitalized after suffering a “severe stroke.”
Broadus made the announcement Thursday on social media, which included photos from her hospital bed.
“I had a severe stroke this a.m. I started breaking down crying when they told me,” she wrote. “Like I’m only 24, what did I do in my past to deserve all of this.”
No details were shared about what led to her stroke or if she had an ischemic stroke, which occurs when blood clots or other particles block the blood vessels to the brain; or if she had a hemorrhagic stroke, which happens when an artery in the brain leaks blood or ruptures, according to the CDC.
Cori Broadus was diagnosed with Lupus, an autoimmune disease that targets healthy tissue and organs throughout the body, when she was only six years old.
“No one could tell me what was wrong,” said Shanté Broadus, the rapper’s wife, in 2010. “They drew tons of blood and said she has old-person cells. They gave her all kinds of [medication]. But she went downhill.”
“She’s the toughest little thing I’ve ever met,” Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., also said at the time. “She’s on the honor roll, playing volleyball and softball, living life. She has all this joy. In the beginning lupus was winning. But now Cori is.”
In 2021, Cori Broadus revealed that she had experienced serious mental health struggles, including a suicide attempt, stemming from her illness.
Then 21 at the time, she said that she had become frustrated by comparing her life to others and feeling as though her struggles were not important to others, according to People.
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“Just because my dad is who he is doesn’t mean I don’t get sad, that doesn’t mean that I don’t want things or that I don’t feel a way. I don’t know how to explain it,” she said. “I’ve always been sad. I’ve always been depressed. I feel like I’ve been through a lot.”
“I’ve been sick, I am sick. It’s a lot. Body hurting, you’re just in pain, and you’re so young you’re like, ‘What is happening to me? What is going on?’” she continued. “And then you look at your brothers and your other family members like ‘Why me?’ Not saying I wish they had it, but why me? Why am I going through this? Why did God choose me?”
