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Ladies love Idris Elba, and he is going to give them more reason to love him courtesy of his new GQ Magazine Spread & Cover. Elba graces ‘The Style Manual’ issue and opens up on a number of deep subjects which fans may not have known about. Particularly his past as a drug dealer, and the shocking truth he learned about his child not being his! Check out the excerpts and photos below.
On Finding Out His Son Was Not His:
“The celebration of having a son – from a man’s perspective, it’s massive,” “It wasn’t immediately obvious – well, it was, because he didn’t look like me. … To be given that and then have it taken away so harshly was like taking a full-on punch in the face.”
“Even admitting it, I’ll probably get laughed at for the rest of my life,” “But it is just tragic, and it happened. … It happened to me. I moved on.”
On Selling Drugs
“I was DJ’ing, but I was also pushing bags of weed; I was doing my work,” “I had to. I know that sounds corny, but this is the truth.””Yeah, it was, because I was running with cats. I mean, I was DJ’ing, ” He used to sell drugs at Carolines, he said, a club where he worked as a bouncer and there he crossed paths (as a doorman) with comedians D.L. Hughley and Dave Chappelle. “All those black comedians, they knew me as a doorman.”
On His Career Breaking Up His Marriage
“[She] didn’t adjust to the culture as quickly as I did,” “We just had a hard time. The next thing you know, we broke up.”
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