Chris Brown Reportedly Suffering from Drug Addiction and Anger Since Manager Quit

Chris Brown has been in a downward spiral of drugs and anger since his former manager Mike Guirguis called it quits last summer, Billboard reports.

According to The New York Daily News, their relationship came to an end after Brown allegedly sucker punched the Guirguis and beat him to the point of hospitalization. The lawsuit filed by Guirguis against the R&B singer claims that the four years they worked together, Brown suffered from “addiction, anger control and violence issues.”

According to various members of his team at the time, Brown would stay up for as long as three days in a row, snorting cocaine and dabbling in Xanax, marijuana, Molly and lean. The report states that several of his employees including tour manager Nancy Ghosh and personal publicist Nicole Perna quit over the past year.

Since Guirguis ‘s departure, Brown has reportedly lashed out against close associates and surrounded himself with members of the Los Angeles Bloods gang.

“You can talk to any drug addict or chemically imbalanced person — it doesn’t just go away,” a former member of Brown’s entourage said. “It’s something you have to work on. You have to change your lifestyle. And he’s not doing the things he needs to do to get well, so he’s never going to be well. The kid is going to hit rock bottom.”