Kevin Hart Calls Fame The ‘Biggest Drug,’ Reflects on Near-Death Experience
By Movieguide® Staff
Actor and comedian Kevin Hart recently recalled his almost fatal car accident in 2019 and said that he thanks God for his life today.
“I believe in God, I’m not as spiritual as some may be, but I’m very thankful for the life God has allowed me to live and the opportunities I’ve been able to embark upon,” Hart told Jay Shetty on the ON PURPOSE podcast.
“But I got a lot more appreciation after life was almost gone. Right, like? Do you really appreciate your toes? Do you really appreciate your fingers? Like, do you really think about your movement, your joints, vision, smell? Do you really think about how fortunate and lucky you are?”
Hart’s near-death experience made the actor reflect on his life and career. He admitted that at the time, he was coasting and had no purpose to his life other than fame.
“I really almost died. I didn’t even have everything dialed up for if said thing were to happen,” he explained. “I’m out here, I’m just roaming. I’m out here aimlessly living and I’m moving so fast. I’ve yet to grasp the true concept and reality of responsibility.”
“Because if that had of been, there would have been a lot of people with their hands up as to what, how, when? Fame is great, the lights are great. Kevin Hart, Kevin Hart, Kevin Hart. Number one, number one, number one. I was in that room with my god—wife, my brother and my kids,” he recalled. “And you look around, you’ve got a lot of friends, you’ve got a lot of people who love you, but then you start to—‘What really matters?’ That’s when my mindset started to change. That’s when you go ‘OK, my approach to just me and working on me – it needs to be different.’”
Since his accident, the 43-year-old actor said he worked on changing his priorities from fame to the more important things in his life like his family.
“The biggest drug – it’s not cocaine, it’s not heroin. It’s not Molly or opioids. Biggest drug is fame,” he said. “Anything you want, everything you want, it’s a thing. And if you can’t handle this thing, the consequences attached are severe. Do you know you and are you OK with you. If you are not, it’ll break you.”
“Boy, you better put your hands on these people and make sure,” he added of his family. “You better make sure that you are giving the time that you said you would when you were in that time of solace.
“You better talk to yourself, you better have conversations… For me, it was about personal evolvement after that accident. And I’m still trying, man, it’s the biggest battle,” he said of his continued growth. I’m going to lose and win in this battle and this battle is not over until the day that I’m in the ground,” he concluded.
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