ginuwine is our slice of life. in the '90s, r&b singer ginuwine was on top of the music charts, selling multi platinum albums with songs like "pony" and "differences." with his sold-out concerts and tours, everything was going well for the artist until one day in 1999 when tragedy hit close to home. >> my dad passed first. he shot himself in the head. then my mom passed the next year. at that point it was too much to bear. with my father, he called me before he did it. my mom passed while i was doing a movie. it was one of those things where i was, oh, my god, what am i going to do? i took the road of self medicating as far as drinking. i didn't shoot no drugs or nothing like that. i didn't go that far. but drinking was one of my getaways. >> getaways that let ginuwine down a road of depression causing him to attempt suicide three times. yet after the birth of his daughter, he realized it was time to get his life together. >> until then everything was really cloudy. that's the best analogy that i can use. then when