Alex Warren is beyond grateful for his current “ordinary” life after having struggled a lot.
During his appearance on the Jay Shetty Podcast, Warren opened up about losing his dad to cancer at the age of only nine. The singer’s troubles continued as he grew up with an alcoholic mother and suffered homelessness. He almost died when a friend’s dad accidentally shot him while he lived out of a car.
“He had cancer four times, I mean the entirety of when I was born, but he beat it three times and the fourth time got him and he died when I was 9. So I probably remembered it from 5 to 9,” the Before You Leave Me hitmaker said.
The singer then shared the last conversation he had with his sick dad, recalling that they joked around.
“I remember the night before the last conversation I ever had with him is, he was puffed up on drugs, and I was messing with him. I was like. ‘Dad will you buy me a Ferrari?’ and he was saying yes to everything,” Warren shared.
“It’s weird to think about it back then and kind of be like, that was my goodbye. I was kind of f**king with him a little bit. All I know is like, you know, he died joking around with us,” he noted.
Warren remembers trying to wake his dad up when he died, not able to understand death at the age of nine.
“I remember when he died I was doing the stereotypical wake up wake up like he was dead in front of me. And um I think it was just a whole moment of me trying to be like, ‘Stop joking around.’ I was 9, but I understood he was dead, but I didn’t understand what that meant, of course. And so, for a good 20 minutes… I was slapping him. I was shaking him, begging him to wake up,” he recalled.
Alex Warren has been making solo music since 2021. His 2025 song Ordinary was a massive hit and peaked the Billboard Hot 100 for multiple weeks in multiple countries.
