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Prince: Shares Details on His Childhood Pain

 
By Essence · Updated October 29, 2020
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Purple Rain performer Prince began the flashy style and quirky noises that made him famous as a way to cope with childhood teasing and being born with epilepsy, he told good friend Tavis Smiley, according to People.com. The second installment of his two-part interview with Smiley will air tonight on PBS. -CJ