Terry Crews claims the reason why he got so strong was because he considered killing his 'abusive' father.
Speaking on Steven Bartlett's The Diary Of A CEO podcast, the White Chicks actor opened up on his traumatic childhood. You can watch an excerpt from the interview below:
The 53-year-old said his alcoholic father used to abuse his religious mother.
Crews once witnessed his father Terry Crews, Sr. 'knock out' his mother Patricia.
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The actor said: "A lot of my my desire to be strong was because I knew one day I may have to kill my father because he was just that person."
He added: "And it was intense man, I guess it was a very, very intense upbringing and I became this person who just wanted to keep the peace, because, anything to keep the peace, I became what you would call a pleaser.
"And it was a lot of work because I lost all my, like, who I was.
"It was dependent on who was around and I was all of a sudden be what they wanted me to be."
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Bartlett asked: "Did you ever try and intervene when your parents were having conflict, did you ever try and intervene at a young age?"
To which, Crews replied: "He was too big, I mean it was one of those things where I felt helpless I felt 100 percent like I was so small."
He added: "I just always felt tiny, I remember just looking at his hands and they were big giant calloused hands and the way he'd walk around the house you just hear 'boom boom boom' you know, it was a drama.
"You know it was like 'man, this man could rip me apart' and I had a desire to get strong, I knew I had to protect, one day, would have to protect my mom protect, my family."
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Crews recalls watching the news aged seven, where he would see reports of families being killed.
He concluded: "'So-and-so kills his whole family' you know, I would always look at the TV and I would say 'you know I think my father could do that'."
The actor also opened up on his pornography addiction, which began at a young age.
At its peak, he would watch porn from '10am to 11pm at night'.
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"It wouldn't stop and I couldn't stop," he said.
Crews says he managed to get the better of his addiction in 2010.
You can listen to Crews' full interview with Steven Bartlett here.
Anish Vij