It looks like Maia Campbell has been found. Over the weekend, LL Cool J sent out a plea to connect with his former In The House co-star after an exploitive video surfaced of the former actress supposedly asking for crack-cocaine.
Mr. Cool James took to Twitter in an attempt to track down Campbell, but never directly heard from her. Campbell has suffered from substance abuse and mental health issues in the past, and the “Radio” MC was evidently concerned about her well-being.
The 40-year-old Campbell eventually resurfaced on Monday (July 10) and released a video of her refusing LL’s help. Instead, she insisted she needed a benefit concert for mental health. She ended it with, “Don’t call me, I’ll call you.”
“Hey Todd,” she said. “Look bro, I love you, ok? I don’t need help. I need a benefit concert for mental health. Don’t TMZ me. It’s really me. This is Darryl. I’m at a shop that I temp at or whatever. We’re good. I’m good.”
When asked how LL could get in touch with her, she begins to tear up.
“I’m really on Instagram, but I don’t want it to go down,” she said. “Pray to God … I want him to do a benefit concert.” She then rattles off a few ways to get in touch with her.
On Monday (July 10), LL offered up a tweet that read: “You can’t help someone who doesn’t want your help.”
During a 2012 episode of Iyanla: Fix My Life, bipolar disorder and substance abuse were topics of conversation. “There’s a lot of pain that goes into my story, a lot of issues with my mom,” Campbell told Iyanla Vanzant. “A lot of times when I was out there running the streets I bumped into the wrong person and they brought me down.”
Nothing like the stubbornness and “know-it-all-ness” of the black woman..
You are ignorant. Not just African Americans that go through drug addictions. Whites are whole lot worse and pathetic. Don’t believe me just watch A&E intervention or hoarders , lots of pathetic white folks with their problems
The worst are those stink ugly mexicans they cant even get a tv show cause no one wants to watch a bunch of drug dealers with 6 kids that cant even speak english that work part time at Taco Bell
At least Mexicans aren’t on tv embarrassing themselves like most Whites/black folks nowadays
Cocaine is a hell of a drug!
-Rick James
Girl needs help. Clearly embarrassed about her crack teeth. Sad forsure, She used to be so gorgeous.
Please watch the movie “Trippin'” with her & Deon Richmond (Kenny/Bud from The Cosby Show) this movie is not only funny asf its probably the most relatable movie someone can watch especially if you’re a daydreamer, the message of getting your life together before its too late is real. Hope she gets the she needs, she used to be absolute fire, body n’ all
This shit has been going on forever. She was so fine back in the day, so it’s sad to see what happened. I know everyone blames it on her mental illness and shit, but I know random dudes who would do drugs with her and hit back in the 90s when she was on TV. She was always reckless, and that shit caught up to her as she continued doing more drugs and whatever she needed to do to get them.