Tim Allen made rare comments about how he considered taking his own life while serving time behind bars on drug charges.

During the Wednesday, October 1, episode of the “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast, Allen, 72, reflected on how his father’s death when he was a child caused him to act out, which eventually led to him being arrested at age 25 on drug trafficking charges.

“I was just a kid. [I was busted for] picking it up. It was just like in a freaking movie [where it was] in a locker,” Allen recalled. “If you want to get into the details of it, I was treated just as badly as people of color. I was pigeonholed because I was a light-skinned guy from an upper middle class family.”

Allen thought the authorities were trying to “make an example” out of him. “I didn’t have a pre-sentence r

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