Seizures, Drugs & Chronic Pains! Prince's Secret Health Crisis Exposed — Find Out What Surgery Had The Legend Popping Pills

During a 2009 PBS interview, the "Purple Rain" legend came clean about his secret struggle with epilepsy as a child. "I've never spoken about this before but I was born epileptic," he confessed. "I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had."  

The king of funk reportedly suffered from a mental meltdown after a bad ecstasy trip made him believe that releasing music to his fans was an act of evil — he even refused to release an untitled album in 1987!  

Prince's skeletal silhouette has also long been the object of serious concern. Appearing to weigh just 100 lbs back in 2009, sources told The National ENQUIRER the singer was "living in pain and not eating much," and that his loved ones had become "worried" about his health.  

Prince's religion — he's part of  Jehovah's Witness faith — did not allow for him to undergo necessary hip replacement surgery to alleviate chronic pain after they  refused to allow blood infusions."Prince has suffered for years," a source revealed to the National ENQUIRER. "It's harder for him to get around."  

The pain left the icon no choice but to self-medicate with pain killers, "hoping it would all go away," a source told Hollywood Report's Showbiz 411.