Terrence Howard lives a more insane life than you could ever imagine.
The 46-year-old "Empire" star opened up to Rolling Stone in a candid interview about his troubled childhood and past marriages. What Howard has to say about his life will leave readers shocked as he talks about everything from his father killing a man, to hitting his ex-wife, to being bullied as a child to having 432 different faces.
When he looks at himself in the mirror, he sees himself as a young boy at just six-years-old watching his daddy Tyrone kill a man right in front of him as someone cuts them in line at a department store to see Santa.
"Little Terrence's coat was splattered with blood," interviewer Erik Hedegaard wrote, as Howard's dad said to him, "'You see that curly motherf--ker right there? That little redheaded motherf--ker right there? You love him, because the only person that's gonna be there no matter what happens in your life is that little motherf--ker."
After that incident, which Howard refers to as the "Santa Line Slaying," his father spent 11 months in prison and his parents divorced shortly after.
After coming from a divorced family to having two divorces of his own, Howard moved on to his third wife. He admits that his wife-beating allegations cost him his first two marriages. As for his 2001 arrest when he hit his first wife, Lori McCommas, he had some explaining to do.
"She was talking to me real strong, and I lost my mind and slapped her in front of the kids," he revealed. "Her lawyer said it was a closed fist, but even slapping her was wrong." He then went on to marry Michelle Ghent when a similar situation went down.
"She was trying to mace me and you can't see anything so all you can do is try to bat somebody away," he continued to explain. "And I think that something caught her, but I wasn't trying to hit her."
His third wife Mira Pak joined Howard for this interesting interview and admitted that they have a very strange relationship.
"We don't have a normal life," Pak told the magazine. "In our two years together, I've only gone to restaurants with him two or three times. We've never been to the supermarket together. We've never been to the movies." Turns out, just a few weeks after the interview took place, their secret divorce was finalized.
As for his "Empire" character, he has no trouble portraying the "super-badass hip-hop record mogul Lucious Lyon."
"Everything I do with Lucious is still me," he said. "I just change the vibration. Because Lucious has a very based understanding of life - kill or be killed - I keep him down at a very low frequency."
Recently, it came out that the show would cut back his character's role due to his "recent divorce drama" and "past domestic abuse allegations," as HNGN previously reported. He will be spending a lot of season two in prison.
"They have him locked up so you won't be seeing him in many scenes," a source told Page Six. "But they are bringing in so many, and I mean so many, guest stars and cameos that the average viewer won't realize it because there is so much going on."
"Empire" returns to Fox for its second season on September 23.
