As we previously reported, Tweet and Shenice (formerly known as Tashawna) revealed on The Lexi Show a few years ago, just how strained their relationship became as a result of Tweet’s past alcoholism and depression, which ultimately sparked Shenice’s battle with bulimia. After hearing this, we gained a whole new respect for Tweet and her not-so-mini-me, Shenice. Check it out below…

Shenice: “I remember her [Tweet] always being numb and very depressed. She was always intoxicated. I never really saw my Mom sober. […] She was always out, enraged. She went through a very dark period in her life and she was angry with the world…very depressed, VERY depressed.

I thought it was normal…I just wanted to help my Mom. […] I didn’t know really what was going on… I didn’t like the state that she was in, but being 8 and 9, you don’t really know what to do, but just pray…that’s all I really could do. My grandmother was my rock through all of it. She was my best friend…she taught me everything.”

Tweet was a part of Devante Swing’s (of Jodeci) group, Sugah, from 1994 to 2000 and after no success, she left and moved back home with her parents and her daughter and that’s what sparked her alcohol addiction:

Tweet- “Nothing was coming up [no job]…didn’t have any money, and I remember my father had this old Lincoln. You know the Lincoln where the seats you have to pull out and you could find the change in there? Change! I used to get the change and go and buy a 40 [ounce bottle of liquor]. And that’s how I started drinking and drinking, and I put all of my problems into a bottle.

[I] started getting very depressed, thinking suicidal, I had it all planned out.[…] I wanted the easy way out, I don’t wanna stab myself or anything like that. ‘Let’s just take some pills…and not wake up.'”

SO glad they both made it through!