Christchurch rapper Scribe has entered a rehab facility, where he will spend the next three months.
The Crusader star revealed the news on his Instagram account over the weekend, after his son’s 21st birthday.
The 41-year-old musician, whose real name is Malo Luafutu, thanked his family and friends, telling them “Addiction is a symptom, not a choice for me . . . I’ve overcome many trials and tribulations by embracing the truth, no matter how humiliating or shameful it may be.”
He called this his “hardest crusade ever”.
n 2015, Scribe starred in The White Guitar – a play he performed with his brother and father, telling the story of gangs, addiction and violence.
“If you came to The White Guitar you know my life and what I came from,” he said in his Instagram post.
Scribe will be in a rehabilitation facility with “no contact with the outside world, no phones, no computer”.
“I will be back a better and stronger me to take this world by storm.”
Scribe is married to his long-term partner Kylie Taylor and the couple have four children.
The award-winning rapper shared a picture from his son Jackson’s 21st birthday the evening before the emotional post.
“Last night was my son’s 21st. Thank you to all my friends and fam who came thru (sic),” the proud father wrote today alongside two photographs – one of him and his son at the party and another from many years ago when the younger Luafutu was a toddler.
Scribe released his mammoth album The Crusader in 2003.
This story originally appeared on Women’s Weekly
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