Snoop Dogg’s Daughter Cori Broadus Emotionally Recounts Depression and Lupus Battles

Content warning: This story discusses suicide.

Cori Broadus is getting candid about her mental and physical health journeys.

During the premiere of her new E! special Snoop’s Fatherhood: Cori & Wayne’s Story, Snoop Dogg‘s only daughter shared how her lifelong battle with lupus has affected her psychological well-being.

“Since a little girl I’ve always been depressed, I’ve always been ‘why me?’” the 25-year-old explained in a confessional during the Dec. 5 episode. “Just being young and sick with Lupus, it was hard. Going to the doctor’s all the time, taking blood pressure medications. So, once COVID hit, I was just in a dark, deep space.”

Cori went on to recount how she attempted to end her life during the pandemic.

“I was in a mental facility because I tried to commit suicide, I think, in 2021,” she shared, before adding how fiancé Wayne Duece was a pillar of support during the difficult time in her life. “I am so lucky to have Wayne, but still, we’re all going through something. It will be okay, and it does come with time. I feel like, when we’re in a certain space or place, it feels like the end of the world.”

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However, Cori—the youngest of Snoop and wife Shante Broadus’ three kids—was eventually able to dig herself out of the darkness by focusing her energy into starting her cosmetics line Choc Factory.

“I was like, ‘Okay girl, you gotta get out of this s–t,” she recounted, “and so I looked online like hobbies and lip gloss makeup came up. I was like, ‘I love a lip gloss moment.’ I’m like, ‘That will be bomb, let’s do that.'”

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And since starting the company, Cori has used the business to support other women.

“Choc Factory is not just a product, it’s a philosophy,” she explained in the confessional. “We have the lip glosses, we have women coming and telling their stories and being vulnerable. It’s literally a factory to uplift women, empower women.”

As for how Cori is dealing with her autoimmune disease today, she opened up to best friend Itali Miller about coping with the symptoms of her lupus.

“I’ve been off my medications for four or five months now,” she shared with Itali at a different point in the episode. “Went to the doctor and my labs looked better than ever. I’m still very, very tired, but my body doesn’t ache as much.”

Keep following Cori’s journey when Snoop’s Fatherhood: Cori & Wayne’s Story airs Thursday at 10 p.m. on E!.

And continue reading for a closer look at Snoop’s family album.