Old insider article about Chris Brown's addiction and anger issues

https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/old-insider-article-about-chris-brown-addiction-and-anger-issues.3047532/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.billboard.com/amp/articles/news/magazine-feature/7709250/chris-brown-insider-investigation

On a Monday morning around this time in 2016, Chris Brown woke up and sparked a blunt. He had fallen asleep on a bright red sectional sofa in the living room of his $4.35 million mansion in Tarzana, an affluent area of Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. It’s where he would pass out most evenings. Lately, says a former employee who was accustomed to scenes like this, Brown had trouble sleeping in his master bedroom upstairs and would instead watch sci-fi movies all through the night. Empty Styrofoam cups littered the table, a sign that Brown -- who hadn’t been taking his medication for the bipolar II condition he had been diagnosed with in 2014 -- had likely also been sipping lean (a mixture of promethazine/codeine syrup and a soft drink), his comedown of choice after a coke or Molly binge. Brown scrolled through Instagram, hunting for clues about the status of his ex, the 28-year-old model Karrueche Tran. Whom was she with last night, and where? Who was commenting on her most recent photos?

delivery man arrived and began ringing Brown’s doorbell. “Do your f—ing job!” barked Brown at one of his security guards, a hulking man who had been living for the past three-and-a-half years in the home. But the guard, who was off duty, was asleep, and his partner was outside. Like many other nights, the guard had stayed up late to check Brown’s pulse. The bell rang again — this time, it was a construction worker who had been employed at the house all week. Brown paced back and forth. Finally, he lost his temper. “I’m going to show you what it’s like not to work with Chris Brown for two weeks!” he shouted at the guards, kicking them both out of his house.

d added that while marijuana offset his hyperactive tendencies, “once I started doing the lean, the other stuff ... I’d be sitting in the [recording] booth sleeping.” In the trailer for the unreleased documentary, he admits that, following the Rihanna incident, “I felt like a f—ing monster. I was thinking about suicide and everything else. I wasn’t sleeping. I barely ate. I just was getting high.”

Brown, who was in a “(drug-fueled) rage,” led Guirguis to a private room down the hall, closed the door and said: “We are going to go for 30 seconds” -- fight, that is. Guirguis turned away to leave, but, the suit alleges, Brown smashed him in the face with his fist. As he fell backward, Brown punched him three more times in the face, jaw and neck. Guirguis was stunned. The two were very close; only a few weeks earlier, Guirguis had wished his “brother for life” a happy birthday on Twitter. He briskly left the studio and took an Uber to an emergency room. He quit that day. “Mike G was and is scared,” the suit reads, “not just for his own safety from Brown and Brown’s gang member friends, but also for the safety of others.”

In February, Brown posted a photo of Vanessa Vargas, a model with whom he had been romantically linked, on Instagram, apparently confirming their relationship even, says the former member of his personal detail, as he continued obsessing over Tran: “He’s always on social media, looking up who Karrueche was with, what she was looking like, what club she was at, who posted to her Instagram.” In her restraining order request, Tran wrote that in February 2017 Brown “threatened to kill me to others; threatened me via text messages; [and] threatened to harass my friends,” and that a few years ago, he had “punched me twice in the stomach” and “pushed me down stairs.”