Kevin Hart had a difficult childhood. Raised in a single-parent household, the star’s mother, Nancy Hart, was the sole provider for Kevin and his older brother, Robert Hart. As a result, the family did not have much money. “We come from a f***ed-up situation,” Robert told Variety. “We come from the worst living conditions.” In an interview with CNBC Make It, Hart described his childhood home as a “little apartment that we had when I was growing up.” Although the comedian only shared the apartment with his mother and older brother, there still wasn’t much space for the three of them. “We had a hallway, and there was my mom’s side and there was me and my brother’s side,” Hart recalled.
While Kevin’s mother was struggling to care for two children, the star’s father, Henry Witherspoon, was in and out of prison, per Variety. “He didn’t escape any of it — jail, drugs, addictions, ruining your family to a point where my mom didn’t want me and my brother to be around him,” Kevin told the outlet. Still, the father and son were later to mend their relationship. Witherspoon even has a strong bond with Kevin’s children. “He’s as good as he can be,” the comedian said of his father. “He’s very much in their lives. He talks to them. He sends them messages. He FaceTimes. He’s serious about making his presence felt.”
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