4. He turned to prayer when things got tough on his journey

A man prays in a church in Birmingham, England.
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When Williams left his parents’ home in Ohio to live in Florida, he recalled being homeless briefly and the lessons he learned from that. By the time he was around 18, he had become a father and that led him to start seriously considering comedy as a career. He said he had deep conversations with God about his plans and things worked out.

“I guess I'm 18 or younger, and … once I have a child, I realized that I can't. It's a lot of things that I could use to make money that now is a no go. So anything with street aspirations that I might have thought about pursuing or being good at, now [I] am a single parent. And I got to redo these things,” he explained.

“So I need comedy to really work out for me. Me and God go into extreme conversation where I'm explaining to him that I'm a crash out dummy if He don't send me a lifeline, like I need something I can hold on to.”

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