Marvin Sapp reveals he once turned to alcohol and drugs to cope with life's “major struggles”

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Being a man of God doesn’t exempt one from life’s battles … just ask Marvin Sapp. The gospel singer revealed he went through some “major struggles” as a child, which prompted his use of drugs and alcohol.

“After my mother and father got divorced I started smoking marijuana daily at the age of 12,” he told Page Six. By the time he was 18, Marvin had already begun drinking, popping pills and snorting cocaine.

The gospel star has since turned his life around and is now a Grammy-nominated star, but he can’t say the same for some of his childhood friends.

“One of my friends is an alcoholic now,