In a 2017 interview with the ABC, Tarver said his career stalled after he spoke out about being sexually abused as a child in the music industry. I was hurting. I had been molested, I had been raped, I had lost my career, which is what I had dreamed of doing all my life, he told the outlet.  After coming home to Texas, Tarver said he struggled with drugs, alcohol and suicidal thoughts. he spoke of his suicidal thoughts in what was to be his final Instagram post, uploaded just days before his death last week. When I think of being at my lowest point in life & suicide was my only way out in 2012. After the attempted try that landed me on life support for 17 hours on a breathing machine. it was NOBODY BUT GOD that put breath back in my body, he wrote in the March 26 post, accompanying a short video of him singing: