The trap superstar discussed the diagnoses in his 2025 book ‘Episodes,’ and recently elaborated in an interview with ‘Nightline.’<\/p>\n
\n Gucci Mane attends “Episodes” meet and greet at DBS Sounds on October 22, 2025 in Riverdale, Georgia.
\n Photo by Prince Williams\/WireImage.\n <\/p>\n
Gucci Mane<\/a> is getting real about mental health issues. The Atlanta trap icon has spoken openly about his struggles, and in an interview with ABC\u2019s Nightline<\/a>, Guwop opens up about being diagnosed with bipolar and battling with schizophrenia. In October 2025, the \u201cLemonade\u201d rapper published a book called Episodes, which dove into his history and let fans into what it\u2019s like living with his diagnoses.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI wanted to help people,\u201d Gucci explained during the interview. \u201cI [needed] to write a book to kind of be like a handbook or a manual for artists that are going through something \u2014 to let them know, \u2018Hey, I\u2019ve been through this. If I can do it, you can do it. And this is what I did to get past it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Gucci, born Radric Davis, was beset with legal issues early in his career and became known for erratic behavior and controversial incidents. He now says that most of his most notorious moments were the result of his struggles with what he now refers to as \u201cepisodes.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe episode is brief, days \u2013 or up to a week to a month \u2013 of you not really thinking rational,\u201d Gucci shared. \u201cHearing voices, not being myself and at the same time doing things that are super irresponsible. It\u2019s a total loss of control. It starts just building like a snowball.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2011, Gucci was arrested on battery charges for allegedly pushing a woman out of his moving vehicle. He was arrested multiple times for aggravated assault and possession of a concealed weapon and marijuana. In 2014, he was sentenced to 39 months in federal prison for illegal possession of a firearm. He served less than two years and was released in 2016. One of his more infamous moments happened in September 2013, an incident at Atlanta\u2019s Lenox Square Mall where the rapper got into a public, heated confrontation with a mall patron that went viral.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI never had got treatment or help,\u201d he now says. \u201cSo I was just doing a whole bunch of irresponsible things. The Lenox Mall episode, when I was about to get to fighting in the mall, that was part of three-week, maybe four-week spiral of things getting from bad to worse.\u201d<\/p>\n Gucci credits treatment, as well as his wife, Keyshia Ka\u2019oir, for helping him pull out of the spiral \u2013 a downturn that also included him abusing pills and lean. <\/p>\n \u201cI struggled with mental health challenges and I struggled with addiction problems, too. And both sides can derail you,\u201d he admits. \u201cUsually, I\u2019d have an episode and by the end of it, I\u2019d be in jail. I\u2019ve been to jail maybe twenty times.\u201d<\/p>\n You can watch the first part of Gucci\u2019s interview below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n