Following concerns from the public that his seizures were the result of drug use, Lil Wayne explained that he has epilepsy in an interview with radio station Power 106, per E! News. He mentioned, “This wasn’t my first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh… I have had a bunch of seizures, you just never hear about them.”
As noted by The Guardian, Lil Wayne explained in a November 2012 interview with MTV News that he was on medication to treat seizures and expressed, referring to the possibility that he might be using drugs, “I don’t want y’all to think I’m on nothing, man. I’m on seizure medicine, man, that’s all.”
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Per the World Health Organization, epilepsy is a common neurological condition, but diagnosis and treatment are important in the reduction of its mortality rate. Still, seizures can be fatal; actor Cameron Boyce was epileptic and died in his sleep because of a seizure.
