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Memphitz Gets Real About His Anger Issues

Published on August 2, 2016

Photo Credit: WE tv

Memphitz has been getting a lot of backlash for blowing up on Toya Wright multiple times on the current season of “Marriage Boot Camp,” but he believeshis anger issues are a result of traumatic part of his childhood.

When Memphitz was young, his father was murdered by a KKK member and he’s not so sure he ever dealt with his anger as a result of losing his father so violently.

In a recent episode of “Marriage Boot Camp,” Memphitz opened up about his father’s murder and he feels his anger from the situation has spilled into his adult relationships.

Eurweb writes:

Mickey “Memphitz” Wright, the estranged husband of Toya Wright, opened up about his father being brutally murdered by a KKK member in his hometown of Memphis. The emotional reveal occurred during Friday’s episode of “Marriage Bootcamp.”

“I already come up in a racist town, so it’s like for a racist KKK member to kill my dad, I have a fuse so short, it’s not good,” he admitted.

Memphitz and Toya have been confronting some of the difficult issues in their relationship on this season of the series, and during this most recent episode the couples were asked to share traumatic experiences from childhood when Memphitz shared his story.

As Essence reports, in 2007, “KKK member Dale V. Mardis confessed to dismembering the body of 46-year-old code enforcement officer Mickey Wright Sr. before burning a portion of his remains and scattering the rest in various junkyard vehicles that were later crushed. Mr. Mardis pled no contest to Mr. Wright’s murder and was sentenced to life in prison in 2011. Mr. Wright’s remains were never found.”