Haddish was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Her father, Tsihaye Reda Haddish, was a refugee from Eritrea, and was from an Eritrean Jewish family. Her mother, Leola, was an African-American small business owner and a Jehovah\'s Witness. After Haddish\'s father left when she was three years old, her mother remarried and went on to have more children; Haddish has two half-sisters and two half-brothers.\n', '

In 1988 while living in Colton, California, Haddish\'s stepfather tampered with the brakes on her mother’s car, leading to an accident in which Leola suffered severe brain damage. The tampering was allegedly intended to harm Haddish and her siblings as well, but they had opted to stay home on the day of the accident. The brain damage possibly triggered Leola\'s schizophrenia. Haddish, then age nine and the oldest of her five siblings, became the primary caregiver for her family.\n', '

At 12, Haddish and her siblings were put into foster care where they were temporarily separated from each other. While there, she used comedy as a way to cope with being in situations with new people. When she was 15, she and her siblings were reunited under the care of their grandmother.\n', '

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