Tiffany Haddish opens up to David Letterman about being sent to foster care

She's known for her uproarious appearances in films like Girls Trip and The Secret Life Of Pets 2.

But Tiffany Haddish got real about the challenging period of her childhood and teen years as she sat down with David Letterman for his Netflix series My Guest Needs No Introduction.

Opening up about when she was taken away from her mother and put into foster care, the 39-year-old comedian and actress said it was 'the worst feeling in the world.'

Though the conversation spent plenty of time on Tiffany's skyrocketing comedy and acting career, the two delved into the Night School star's tumultuous childhood and her stint in foster car

The impetus for leaving her family was a devastating car accident her mother suffered.

'When I was eight, about to be nine, she had a car accident and her head went through a windshield,' explained Tiffany. 

'By the grace of god she lived, but she had to learn to walk, talk, eat, everything, all over again. 

'[The accident] changed everything about her. I used to think she was demonized. I thought maybe somebody else jumped inside her body. "Where is my mommy. she's gone,"' she recounted as her eyes welled up and her voice began to crack with emotion.

In her 2017 memoir The Last Black Unicorn, Tiffany revealed that her stepfather told her over dinner that he had tampered with the car's breaks in an attempt to kill her mother, herself and her four siblings, but the children had decided to stay home that day.

In the face of her mother's mental impairment

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