Katt Williams has worn many titles: comedian, actor, producer — and truth-teller.
But he recently revealed his proudest title is being called “dad.”
Williams has three biological children, but he also mentors and guides other adolescent kids who are not related to him. Now, the lesser-known details of his life are getting attention after he laid bare his unorthodox family dynamic.
Williams released his first memoir, “Nine Lives, No Wives and 69 Concubines,” this week. The book chronicles his journey from homelessness after being emancipated from his Jehovah’s Witness parents to comedy stardom.
One of the biggest revelations in the book, released Oct. 20, is the breakdown of the children he proudly boasts about during stage appearances.
The 55-year-old talked about the early years before his career got started. He writes that he first found out he had a child at 21, just 10 months after she was born.
“It f—d me up too,” he said. “Messed me up inside so bad I felt my chest cave in.”
In the book, Williams explained that his ex-girlfriend, Angela, primarily raised their daughter while he pursued his career.
“I left knowing one thing: our daughter, a little chocolate queen, would grow into one of the most loved and stunning Black women on earth,” Williams said, not revealing her name.
Just two years later, Williams learned that another ex-girlfriend, Justine, had given birth to a son.
According to People, the “Friday After Next” star wrote that he jumped right in headfirst after Justine told him she couldn’t raise their son, Micah, 35, alone and needed help.
”Suddenly, I was a full-time dad with a daughter in South Carolina and a son on my hip,” he wrote.
“My daughter was now 3, and I wasn’t in her life as I should have been. Micah was with me, but I didn’t know a thing about raising a child,” Williams admitted.
However, previous reports identified Williams’ ex-wife, Quadirah Locus, as Micah’s mother. The Sun also reported that Williams adopted six of Locus’ other children, a detail that differs from the memoir, which identifies Justine as Micah’s mother.
“One kid to seven kids overnight? That was a head-on collision in a minivan full of responsibility,” he wrote.
To give his children stability, he bought a home in California where they all lived. Williams also invited his assistant Lena, her three children, and his unnamed estate manager and her six children to live with him.
Williams said he would not change anything about his life as a dad.
“Not because I got everything right,” he said. “But look at what we built: 10 beautiful human beings that I somehow managed not to ruin.”
Other reports say he has between eight and 10 children.
During his infamous 2024 interview on Shannon Sharpe’s podcast “Club Shay Shay,” he admitted, “I got five daughters, I got five sons.”
He doesn’t specify their names or if he adopted any of his assistant’s or estate manager’s children. But he did say all the children call him, “dad.”
Williams further explained how he adopted Justine’s children during his sit-down interview with Michelle Obama and her brother, Craig Robinson.
Last year in December, on their podcast “IMO,” he said, “My son’s mother was living in another state, and she had another life and had kids. And at some point, she faced an addiction crisis, and her children went to the orphanage.”
The “One Of Them Days” actor claimed he got a call, and even though he doesn’t have a direct relationship with her six kids, they are his son’s siblings. So he ultimately adopted them.
One fan cheered Williams on for taking on multiple children. They said, “You can never make me hate this man.”
A second person who seemed proud of him wrote, “Real Man , Real Father.” A third fan joked, “Adopt me next.”
While Williams has mostly kept quiet about his kids and this is news to most of his fans, TMZ once reported on his children back in 2011.
At the time, Williams lost custody of his then eight-year-old adopted daughter Leanne, to her nanny, Crystal McGhee, after she claimed to be the child’s mother.
A judge awarded McGhee sole legal and physical custody. The judge granted Williams visitation on alternate weekends after he failed to appear in court.
According to BCK Online, Williams filed legal documents the following month challenging McGhee’s claim and establishing that she had no biological relationship to Leanne or parental rights.
The judge subsequently overturned the custody order, restoring Williams’ custody rights.
