Tiffany Haddish reunited with her social worker, Coleta Lewis, during her recent stand-up comedy show.
A moving Instagram video on the 46-year-old American comedian and actress’s official account shows her being swept away by emotions after her social worker Lewis surprised her in the audience during her recent stand-up show.
Below the clip of her touching reunion, Haddish wrote a caption that read, “Holiday reunion with my social worker. Thank you, Coleta, for everything.”
The show captured a moment when The LEGO Movie 2 The star was standing on stage looking at the audience when Lewis said: “I don’t know if you remember me, my name is Coleta Lewis.”
Haddish recognized him in a split second and said, “Coleta Lewis! My social worker!” and she shouted, “Turn on the lights,” and left the stage to give Lewis a hug.
After I hugged him, The card counter The actress was deeply moved and then tearfully acknowledged by joking, “You saved my life. It’s because of you that I am where I am today. Because you encouraged me, you were one of the first people to believe in me. Thank you. I love you.”
She then told the rest of the audience that Lewis stood by her through her substance abuse issues and gave her some much-needed direction in life.
Haddish said: “Coleta was my second social worker and [in school] …I got into all this trouble, talking too much and s****, and she said, ‘You have two choices this summer, you can go to the Laugh Factory Comedy camp or you can go to psychiatric therapy…’
“And I was winning all these drama festivals and I said, ‘Who’s got drugs?’ And you said, ‘You don’t do drugs, you go to therapy.’ So I went to comedy camp… that changed my whole life,” she recalls.
