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TI denies suicide rescue a publicity stunt
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 15 October 2010
Hip hopper TI has denied media reports in the US that his widely reported role in talking a suicidal man down from a 22 storey building in Atlanta was just a publicity stunt.
Earlier this week the rapper, real name Clifford Harris, helped out when a man was threatening to jump in his home city. He recorded a video message for the unnamed jumper who then agreed to come down if he could spend a few minutes talking to Harris.
As news of the rapper’s involvement in the incident emerged, some suggested it might have all be set up to show TI as a community hero. He is due in court later this week to face a new set of drugs charges.
But TI reacted angrily to that suggestion, saying: “I didn’t know this guy, I didn’t wake up in the morning to say, ‘Hey, let me find a way to go and save someone’s life so I can be looked at favourably come Friday’. My situation never even became a thought in my mind in the process of dealing with this – it was just something that touched my heart”.