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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, one of my friends is still strung out on crack,” he said. ”One of my friends is in prison for 27 years for second-degree murder and another one of my friends did about 15 years, because he had a kilo [of drugs on him when he was arrested].”

Marvin’s Page Six interview comes amid a press run promoting his upcoming project Never Would Have Made It: The Marvin Sapp Story. His hope is that the film helps to debunk the notion that church-going people aren’t flawed.

“Just because somebody goes to church does not make them perfect,” Marvin said. “We are all flawed in some shape, form or fashion. People need to see that because for some strange reason when they think of Marvin Sapp, people think I walk around with a halo but they don’t know my story.”

Never Would Have Made It: The Marvin Sapp Story airs Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on TV One.

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If there’s one person Keke Palmer would love to play in a film, it’d be the late Whitney Houston. Her desire comes from wanting to do the singer some justice and tell her full story, unlike the projects that mainly discuss her highly publicized lows.

“I think that with Whitney’s story, a lot of times people exploit just the more sensational aspects in terms of her relationship with Bobby or the conversations around drug use,” Keke said in an interview with E! News. “I think there’s so much to Whitney that has not been explored in terms of just her family and her relation to the kind of music she did and how that was accepted culturally.”

“There’s just so many other nuanced aspects of who Whitney Houston is and the barriers that she broke, that I think have not been as explored,” she continued. “When I think about her story, I just would want to show her truly as the sweetheart that she was and everything that she did that changed culture forever.”

Keke’s wish to portray the “I Have Nothing” star is not far-fetched, at least not in the eyes of social media users. Last week, a fan sharing a compilation of funny Whitney clips tweeted, “Keke Palmer and Whitney Houston act exactly the same.”

Keke replied, “Let’s get the movie made y’all. I’m ready to ACK, we abt to weep in the theaters.”

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With less than two weeks until the MTV Video Music Awards, details about the big show continue to be revealed. The latest update: Nicki Minaj, LL Cool J and Jack Harlow will serve as emcees on the big night.

The selection of three anchors puts “a more innovative and unique” spin on hosting as we know it, but their duties are no different from those of previous emcees. As usual, the stars will guide the crowd through the night, announcing performers, presenters and awards along the way.

The 2022 VMAs will air live from the Prudential Center in New Jersey on Sunday, August 28, at 8 p.m. ET. Jack, Lizzo and Nicki, who is also set to receive the Video Vanguard Award, are expected to hit the stage.

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(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events:

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

INTERLEAGUE

Boston 8, Pittsburgh 3

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Minnesota 4, Kansas City 0

Toronto 6, Baltimore 1

Seattle 11, LA Angels 7

Cleveland 8, Detroit 4

Oakland 7, Texas 2

Houston 3, Chi White Sox 2

NY Yankees 8, Tampa Bay 7 (10)

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Cincinnati 1, Philadelphia 0

Chi Cubs 3, Washington 2

San Diego 10 Miami 3

NY. Mets 9 Atlanta 7

St. Louis 5 Colorado 1

L.A. Dodgers 2 Milwaukee 1

Arizona 3, San Francisco 2

WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS

New York 98, Chicago 91

Las Vegas 79, Phoenix 63

MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER

New York 2, Atlanta 1

New England 2 Toronto FC 2 (Tie)

Ended Charlotte FC 3, New York City FC 1

Dallas 1, Philadelphia FC 0

Vancouver 2, Colorado 1

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Less than a week after Nicki Minaj released her new track “Super Freaky Girl,” she is dropping the remix.

“WAKE TF UP!!!!!! LINK IN MY BIO!!!!!!” she wrote alongside the cover art for the remixed track, dubbed “Super Freaky Girl (Roman Remix).” 

Following the link will bring fans to the rapper’s website where they can purchase the song for $0.69. After completing the purchase the track will be sent via email. 

Nicki released the original “Super Freaky Girl” on Friday, August 12. Prior to the official release, she teased a snippet on TikTok and it went viral. The song, which samples Rick James‘ 1981 hit “Super Freak,” was originally dubbed “Freaky Girl,” but Nicki left the name up to fans to decide after she had to change the it for legal reasons.

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