The clip was from a Ring camera and shows the tattoo shop owner striking a canine with a folding chair multiple times, as well as locking the dog in a cage, and pushing it down a hill. Last month, Emanuel was fired from the hit VH1 reality series after the footage of him went viral. Ceaser begins talking about therapy around the 12-minute mark.NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 20: Ceaser Emanuel poses at the Ceasar Emanuel press conference to address recent social media attacks on in New York City. And that couple of seconds basically cost me a lot.” I’m more intelligent and more sure than that. He added, “And that’s what I did … I ain’t alright. And I feel like that moment just defined that I needed help.” And you trying to be a man – men ain’t supposed to cry, men ain’t supposed to do this – you not understanding you doing more damage to yourself than anything.

“So, you walking around with wounds that’s just open. “Being on TV, sometimes you just get caught up in the machine that you don’t really get to mend anything that you going through,” he said. But everything came crashing down for him with the dog abuse scandal. I never really got to heal or anything … I done lost a lot of things.”Ĭeaser tried to power through his issues for years, particularly while he was starring in Black Ink Crew. He continued, “I didn’t know … how much loss, how many people died and I just kept working and kept building. I didn’t know how much stuff I was going through until after this dog situation I got therapy.”

situation with my daughter just happened. “I don’t want to make no excuses but that was during COVID. “Honestly, I was going through a lot,” he said.

The Black Ink Crew boss believed his unresolved trauma led to the violent outburst that got him fired. Black Ink Crew’s Ceaser Emanuel sought professional help after VH1 fired him for abusing a dog in a viral video.Ĭeaser revealed he went to therapy to address his dog abuse in an interview with WGCI 107.5 in Chicago.

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