Marriage Boot Camp: Kurupt quits after choosing alcohol and Toni Calvert also leaves Hip Hop Edition

Kurupt quit Marriage Boot Camp: Hip Hop Edition on Thursday’s episode as he chose alcohol over his romantic relationship.

The 47-year-old rapper left the cast house after a fight with his girlfriend Toni Calvert, claiming she might get violent with him.

He later confirmed that it was the lack of available brown liquor that caused him to flee and he had no plan to come back.

It was the third time that week that alcohol had caused a major issue for Kurupt, who’d even been taken to the hospital.

When show host Dr. Ish Major offered Kurupt a chance to go to rehab right away, the rapper turned it down.

‘No, I ain’t going to rehab,’ he said, grinning. ‘I did it already, and I don’t like it.’

Ish, disappointed, told Kurupt that he would have to leave the show, explaining, ‘I need you to get the help you need, and you’re not getting it here. When you’re ready to take that next step, I am here for you to do that.’

Kurupt smiled and shook Ish’s hand, and his car pulled away.

‘I see people like Kurupt every day,’ Ish reflected, saddened. ‘His addiction is destroying him physically, but it’s also destroying his relationship with Toni.’

‘Kurupt may be happy to leave Boot Camp, but it breaks my heart. I know that unless he chooses to get sober, he may not survive another five years.’ 

Toni was informed that she would also need to leave the program, and everyone hoped that she might make a wise decision about her relationship with Kurupt.

She smiled broadly, seemingly free to be happy of her partner as she flew home to her kids in Las Vegas.

Just hours earlier, Kurupt had been shouting in a phone call with producer about how ‘unsafe’ Toni was to be around.

‘I don’t believe Kurupt is in any real danger from Toni,’ Ish noted privately, explaining that his removal of the brown liquor in the house—something he’d done to help Kurupt—had sent his addiction ‘off the fulcrum.’

It was Day 8 of Boot Camp, the show’s most emotional day, and Kurupt wasn’t the only one in crisis.

The rapper Vado, 35, was sequestered in a hotel because he had attacked his girlfriend Tahiry José, 40, at a house meeting three days before.

Reality star Hazel-E Baby, 40, was hunkered down in her room with boyfriend De’Von Waller, 30, after suffering a miscarriage.

To get everyone back on track, Ish asked Hazel-E and De’Von if they wanted to return, and they decided that they would.

Judge Lynn Toler, 60, who often spoke to couples on the show, then told Tahiry they were going to allow Vado back in the house, but she would never be alone with him.

‘Anytime you feel uncomfortable, and you say the word, he is gone,’ Lynn explained.

As for Kurupt, Ish felt he was ‘a destructive force in the house,’ and that his alcoholism kept feeding Toni’s rage.

‘I think he’s at a point where he needs immediate intervention, because it’s leveling out of control for him,’ Ish told Lynn, who suggested Toni might need to leave as well.

‘I don’t know how much progress we can make, because she doesn’t have much insight,’ she said.

Kurupt and Toni subsequently left the show, both temporarily going their separate ways.

Vado then returned to the house, where he told Ish his mother had read him the riot act for his recent behavior.

He admitted that he’d been carrying anger around for a long time, and wrote an apology to Tahiry which read, ‘After I hit a woman, I feel like the weakest man on earth.’

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Ish was impressed by Vado’s progress, and wanted him to participate in an activity about confronting the past.

Couples were asked to think of a personal trauma, then given art supplies so they could decorate a toy car and illustrate what happened to them.

Shanda Taylor depicted her life as a daddy’s girl, remembering how her father, like her husband Willie Taylor, 39, made her feel ‘not good enough.’

Willie described a life filled with violence—he’d been held up three times—and a grandfather who would have told him to make things right with Shanda.

Medina Islam said his mother had suffered from schizophrenia, and once tried to sell his little brother in a mall, after which she was institutionalized and he never saw her again.

Medina’s girlfriend Phaedra Parks, 46, recalled life with her white-passing grandfather in Georgia, and how he was frequently asked, ‘Who is this N-baby you got with you?’

‘My aunt was like, ”Because you don’t look like these people, you’re going to have to be so well put-together”,’ Phaedra shared, as Ish noted her still-immaculate presentation.

Hazel-E confessed that her mother had an abusive boyfriend who beat the two of them, even once breaking her nose—and then went on to date other abusers.

‘So when you grew up, you were gonna make sure you always had the control,’ Ish mused.

De’Von described a spoiled childhood in which he often acted out, which led Ish to say, ‘And you’ve got it pretty cush, and you still act out.’

Tahiry’s car showed how unpredictable her life had been, with another abusive relationship and a father arrested for dealing drugs when she was in high school.

At five years old, she said, she had been shot at by people looking for drugs and money.

Vado grew up with a drug-dealing father who did jail time before being deported back to Jamaica.

‘Years later, I ended up being in jail,’ he shared.

That night, the lessons learned from the day’s activity were hammered home when Ish had children drive the cars up a driveway before the celebrities.

One by one, the kids spoke as though they were the ones currently living their traumas, which made the celebs realize how much they had suffered through. 

‘Kids live what they learn,’ Ish said. ‘At some point, you’ve got to break the cycle.’

The only person who seemed to miss the lesson was De’Von, who seemed proud of the way that he’d gotten everything growing up.

‘I’m blessed,’ he said. ‘There’s nothing wrong with getting everything given to you. It’s how you take it down the line.’ 

‘I wish he had to struggle just a little bit more,’ Hazel-E opined. ‘Cause he just doesn’t get that somebody’s blood, sweat and tears went into something that he’s reaping his benefits from.’

After the exercise was over, Vado read his apology to Tahiry. 

His words moved everyone when he told her that he knew he should be the one protecting her, not hurting her.

At the end of the show, Hazel-E asked De’Von if she was his sugar mama, and joked about finding herself another guy.  

The quip struck a nerve and made him warn her she might end up alone.

Marriage Boot Camp: Hip Hop Edition will return next week on WE.

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