Jasmine Guy Reveals She Housed Tupac Shakur After He Was Shot in New York: ‘Couldn’t Tell Anybody’

Jasmine Guy talks about the time she adopted Tupac Shakur.

During a guest appearance on a daily talk show Sherri on Thursday, the singer and actress revealed that she let the late rapper stay with her when he needed a safe apartment in New York in 1994.

“Well, the development was after filming in New York,” Guy, now 61, told host Sherri Shepherd of Shakur, whom she met when he starred in A different world. “First of all, I hung out with Tupac because he was good friends with Jada [Pinkett Smith]. We always hung out after the show.”

After he was shot, Guy and Pinkett Smith tried to visit Shakur in the hospital. When they arrived, he was already gone.

“He didn’t feel safe there. He had just been shot,” she recalled. “He felt like a sitting duck. And since I was reserved and they didn’t know we were friends… I felt like Diary of Anne Frank because I couldn’t tell anyone he was there.”

Tupac Shakur; Jasmine Guy.

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Guy went on to explain that Shakur stayed with her for several weeks while his wounds healed. His family was with him.

“They were all in that one room,” she recalled. She also told his family: “‘If we want it to be peaceful, everyone has to leave by 10 p.m.’ And that went on for about two days.”

“‘You don’t understand. We’re the Shakurs. We’re going to show you how to have a family life,'” his family replied. “It was fun, except for the stress.”

In October, a new authorized biography of the late rapper, Tupac Shakur Staci Robinson, published by Penguin Random House. In chronicling the music legend’s life, the book explores how significant his relationship was with Pinkett Smith, 52, whom he met in high school when they were aspiring actors and who he soon considered a “friend for life”.

Robinson writes in the biography, which was authorized by the star’s mother Afeni Shakur Davis before her death in 2016, that All eyes on me the artist met the actress at a gathering at their high school in Maryland, the Baltimore School for the Arts, for students in the theater department. “We hit it off from that moment on,” Pinkett Smith said in a previous interview published in Tupac Shakur.

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The Talk about the red table The host explained that the two had a “relationship” and were able to talk to each other about their financial struggles and their mother’s substance abuse issues. They soon realized that their relationship meant that they would be “friends for life”.

“When you have someone who’s got your back when you feel like you’re nothing, that’s everything,” the Emmy winner said.

“California Love” rapper Sekyiwa Shakur’s sister talks in the book about her brother’s relationship with Pinkett Smith and their friend John Cole at the time. “I just remember John coming to the house all the time. And nothing else could be discussed except for Jada,” said in Tupac Shakur. “His music has changed. This nation has changed. And Jada came — an entity! Magazine posters came off his wall and John’s art went up on his wall. And pictures of Jade.”

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