Determined to share his play with a wide audience, Perry spent the next 6 years endlessly rewriting the play until he got it absolutely right. The show flopped, however, with Perry failing to recoup his investment. Intrigued, Perry picked up a pen and began writing a series of letters to himself which would go on to become his first musical play "I Know I've Been Changed." Perry eventually saved $12,000 to put the play on at a community theater in Atlanta in 1992. Oprah was interviewing a guest who spoke about the healing powers of writing to overcome traumatic events in one's life. It was in Atlanta, while scraping by working in an office, that Perry just happened to catch an episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (Syndicated, 1986-2011). Perry never finished high school but did earn his GED, and in 1990, when he was 20 years-old, he fled New Orleans and moved to Atlanta. In later years, Perry would also reveal that he was sexually abused at the age of 10 by a friend's mother, a deeply traumatic event that only added to his depression. His father would often beat him, which sunk Perry into a deep depression as a teenager. Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Perry grew up in an abusive household. Tyler Perry was a powerhouse American actor, director, writer and producer who was best known for creating the immensely popular Madea character, a no-nonsense elderly African-American woman, who was played by Perry in a string of widely successful films from 2005 to 2019.
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