The ex-girlfriend of rapper Juice Wrld claims he would take up to three potent Percocet pills a day and mix the drugs with a cough syrup concoction called lean before their relationship fell apart when she tried to help him get clean, she reveals in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com.
Juice Wrld, real name Jarad Higgins, had a fatal 'opioid overdose' after taking 'several Percocet pills' to hide them from cops, who searched luggage from his private jet, and found guns and 70lbs of marijuana at Chicago's Midway Airport on Sunday.
His ex-girlfriend Alexia Smith, 21, told DailyMail.com she knew what Higgins had died from before the reports came out, as she witnessed the rapper's heavy drug use daily while they dated in 2018.
In the exclusive interview, Smith, from Livonia, Michigan, detailed her relationship with Higgins, his struggles with depression and how she was forced to walk away after their relationship turned violent and left her with bruises when Higgins went through withdrawal.
Breaking down in tears, Smith said: 'Seven days away from me, he ended up in the hospital. When he was away from me for seven days, he ended up hospitalized from collapsing on stage. One year away from me, and he's dead.'
Smith and Higgins met at the start of Higgins' career, introduced through a mutual friend in Chicago in early 2018, and quickly began dating before breaking up around October 2018 due to arguments and fights that turned physical.
But the start of their relationship was a whirlwind romance with Smith flying out to Higgins in Los Angeles where he was taking meetings with various music labels that wanted to sign him.
Within days of arriving in LA, Smith claims she saw the drug-heavy world Higgins was being brought into, saying 'someone from a label gave him morphine and cocaine' on the third day she was visiting.
Smith said: 'He didn't do the coke but the point was, in the beginning, labels were fighting over him so bad they would have given him anything.'
Soon drugs became at the ready for the rising star.
Smith said Higgins struggled with his mental health and was depressed, explaining that's why he turned to drugs - mainly Percocet and lean - a mixture of codeine cough syrup and soda.
Eventually Higgins tried to hide his Percocet use from Smith, as she urged him to get clean, but said at most, she believed he took up to three of the painkillers at a dose of 30mg at a time. 'That's already a lot but the problem was he was drinking lean on top of it,' she said.
Rapper Future was a big influence in Higgins' lean consumption, even telling the superstar musician last year his music inspired him to try the addictive drink when he was still a teen.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Future said he was shocked and was 'really bothered' by the confession, adding: 'I was like ''Oh st. What the fk have I done?'' How many other sixth-graders did I influence to drink lean?'
Smith said Higgins' depression stemmed from a variety of factors, including previous heartbreak, the feeling that no one understood him and not knowing who his real friends were.
Juice Wrld, real name Jarad Higgins, had a fatal 'opioid overdose' after taking 'several Percocet pills' to hide them from cops, who searched luggage from his private jet, and found guns and 70lbs of marijuana at Chicago's Midway Airport on Sunday.
His ex-girlfriend Alexia Smith, 21, told DailyMail.com she knew what Higgins had died from before the reports came out, as she witnessed the rapper's heavy drug use daily while they dated in 2018.
In the exclusive interview, Smith, from Livonia, Michigan, detailed her relationship with Higgins, his struggles with depression and how she was forced to walk away after their relationship turned violent and left her with bruises when Higgins went through withdrawal.
Breaking down in tears, Smith said: 'Seven days away from me, he ended up in the hospital. When he was away from me for seven days, he ended up hospitalized from collapsing on stage. One year away from me, and he's dead.'
Smith and Higgins met at the start of Higgins' career, introduced through a mutual friend in Chicago in early 2018, and quickly began dating before breaking up around October 2018 due to arguments and fights that turned physical.
But the start of their relationship was a whirlwind romance with Smith flying out to Higgins in Los Angeles where he was taking meetings with various music labels that wanted to sign him.
Within days of arriving in LA, Smith claims she saw the drug-heavy world Higgins was being brought into, saying 'someone from a label gave him morphine and cocaine' on the third day she was visiting.
Smith said: 'He didn't do the coke but the point was, in the beginning, labels were fighting over him so bad they would have given him anything.'
Soon drugs became at the ready for the rising star.
Smith said Higgins struggled with his mental health and was depressed, explaining that's why he turned to drugs - mainly Percocet and lean - a mixture of codeine cough syrup and soda.
Eventually Higgins tried to hide his Percocet use from Smith, as she urged him to get clean, but said at most, she believed he took up to three of the painkillers at a dose of 30mg at a time. 'That's already a lot but the problem was he was drinking lean on top of it,' she said.
Rapper Future was a big influence in Higgins' lean consumption, even telling the superstar musician last year his music inspired him to try the addictive drink when he was still a teen.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Future said he was shocked and was 'really bothered' by the confession, adding: 'I was like ''Oh st. What the fk have I done?'' How many other sixth-graders did I influence to drink lean?'
Smith said Higgins' depression stemmed from a variety of factors, including previous heartbreak, the feeling that no one understood him and not knowing who his real friends were.
the average drug user doesn't have a SERIOUS reason why they do em