He added during an episode of his E! show: “For a young man, you’re not really going to know who you are for real until you deal with heartbreak.
“It’s supposed to get to a point where they can handle it on their own and they don’t want you all in their business. If it doesn’t get to that point, something’s gone terribly wrong.”
The “No Mediocre” rapper’s comments come after he previously came under fire for saying he accompanies his daughter Deyjah to the gynecologist in order to “check her hymen.”
T.I. — whose real name is Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. — later clarified his comments when he said: “My intentions I think have been terribly misconstrued and misconceived. Let me go set this record straight, I never said I was in any exam room, that is an assumption, that is a falsity. I never said that it was being done in [the] present-day as an 18-year-old … and I never said that her mother wasn’t present. Her mom was present every time.”
