Tiffany Haddish Turns Pain to a Career in Comedy
From humble beginnings to one of comedy's biggest names!

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South Central LA - Tiffany Haddish was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles to a refugee Jewish father and African-American mother.(Photo: Tiffany Haddish via Instagram)
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Tragic Accident - At the age of three, Tiffany's father left and her mother remarried. At the tender age of eight, her mother was in a tragic car accident which caused her to have schizophrenia.(Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

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Pain to Laughter - At the age of 12, Haddish and her siblings were split up and put into the foster care system. At this time, Tiffany used comedy to cope with everything going on in her life.(Photo: Tiffany Haddish via Instagram)
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Comedy Camp - In school, she was reprimanded for goofing around and her social worker gave her two options: to go to psychiatric therapy or attend the Laugh Factory Comedy Camp. This was when comedy changed her life.(Photo: Steve Grayson/WireImage)
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Big Break - Haddish's first break was a spot on Bill Bellamy's Who's Got Jokes?.(Photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
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