Many celebrities have come forward lately to help the anti-bully cause and to share their own experiences with bullying in school -- and now it's 50 Cent's turn. But instead of talking about being the victim of bullying (like most stars), the rapper admits he was the one doing the bullying.
His new young adult novel Playground is written from the perspective of the bull -- an overweight student named Butterball, who bullies his classmates because he can't come to terms with his own emotions.
The issue is important to 36-year-old 50 Cent (ne: Curtis Jackson) in more ways than one. As a father, he could see how bullying was affecting adolescents.
"Because my son is 15-years old, it's a relevant issue for me because of him. I wrote it because I wanted to do something about it," he said on the Today show on Wednesday.
But the Grammy-winning entrepreneur, who has been working on the book for more than a year, has another even more personal reason to tackle the subject -- he was himself a bully growing up in Queens, New York.
"I had more experiences where I was a part of the problem, where I was actually bullying," Jackson admits. "To know now from an adult's perspective and be able to write things, I can look back on those actual situations and say, 'That was completely wrong.' But I know what was motivating it now."
If only all bullies could grow up to redeem themselves like 50 Cent!
Watch 50 Cent talk about bullying below:
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