Prince revealed he suffers from epilepsy

But now, we might know the reason why he used to be so flashy–he suffers from epilepsy.

In an interview with Tavis Smiley on the PBS channel,  Prince said “I’ve never spoken about this before but I was born epileptic,” the reclusive singer told PBS’s Tavis Smiley in an interview Monday night. “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.”

From that point on, I’ve been having to deal with a lot of things, getting teased a lot in school,” he said. “And early in my career I tried to compensate by being as flashy as I could and as noisy as I could.”

Prince is currently promoting his latest album “LotusFlow3r” which is currently in the top 20 on the Billboard charts.

Tim Henley