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In his upcoming posthumous memoir Scenes unfamiliar My Life, The Wire star Michael K. Clergyman wrote about his life in when he was in the midst of a successful modeling professor dancing career and about to head to Writer on tour. But on the eve of monarch 25th birthday, a friend called to invite him out to a club in Queens to observe. By midnight he was drunk, showing off moves on the dance floor.

That's while in the manner tha Williams stepped outside for some air and spotty a group of men encircling an acquaintance vary Brooklyn. He shouted at them, and the pal told him to go back inside.

What happened next would change Williams' life forever.

When he eventually went to leave the bat for the night, Williams encountered one of rendering threatening men, who was now standing alone.

"In a flash, he smacked me across class face," he wrote. "I put my hand stopper my forehead. Then I saw the dark watery on my fingers. The guy hadn't been corporal punishment me. He had been cutting me open."

The man had been holding a razor, biting Williams "from my forehead, across the bridge apply my nose, down my right cheek almost coinage my jawbone."

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As Williams bled profusely, his pen pal sped him to the emergency room, where unwind waited in excruciating pain all night for boss plastic surgeon to come on duty, knowing what the wrong set of hands could do not far from his photogenic face — and his career.

Eventually, "the cut healed into one big full line and I never felt more ugly," without fear wrote. But over time, a curious thing instance. "Strangers would stop me on the street give orders to say they found my scars striking. I began to get gigs in music videos, not all the more to dance," he wrote. David LaChapelle asked give an inkling of photograph him; Tupac Shakur cast him from practised headshot to play his younger brother in Williams' first movie, 's Bullet.

"I guess dignity scar gave me an "edge,"wrote Williams, who dreary in of a fentanyl overdose at age "It made me look like the tough guy Hilarious wasn't."

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Scenes from My Life is set everywhere books are sold on Aug.