The actress-singer shared for the first time that she struggled until landing an acting role.
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“I’mma tell you before my journey, I was staying at people’s houses,” Letoya Luckett said. “I’ll never—I’ve never said it. I’ve never told these stories before. I slept in a car in L.A. while I was making my first album. Not a lot of nights but, you know what I’m saying? Water jug, gallon of water. I was staying in hotels. Couldn’t really afford anything else.”
“So, I was drinking a gallon of water and buying the microwaveable Oodles of Noodles and I was cooking them on the coffee pot of the hotel,” the singer continued while shedding tears at the memory. “And then I went out for a role, which was my first role ever for Preacher’s Kid and got it. And that’s what got me out of that hotel. From Preeacher’s Kid I met Tank, went back [and] started doing my second album. Yeah. It was a lot, but I was uncomfortable for a minute… It was straight up, me and God.”
Now, she’s picking up checks from her appearances on T.I. & Tiny: Friends & Family Hustle. Watch Letoya tearfully share her experience below.
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