What happened when comedy’s wildest truth-teller sat down with America’s coolest First Lady and her big brother in a posh barn on Martha’s Vineyard? An unexpected, intriguing, and, in proper Katt Williams form, nearly unbelievable conversation with Michelle Obama and her brother, Craig Robinson on their IMO podcast.
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In his viral 2024 Club Shay Shay interview, the pimp-persona posturing Williams went on an eyebrow-raising rant that left people questioning his veracity and motives. But on IMO, the Wild ‘N Out alum showed a different side — subdued, even humble. He praised the Obamas as national “superheroes” and we didn’t even hear him cuss.
Here are the revelations no one expected.
He’s An Avid Golfer
Born Micah Katt Williams in Ohio, he revealed a love for golf, joking that he is “unhandicapped.” Connecting the sport to parenting, he said, “Golf gives you the opportunity to do something exactly how the best player in the world would do it, and then six minutes later, you hit a shot [like] a nine-year-old….”
He’s a Farmer
Williams said he owns more than 100 acres of land with ducks, 100 geese, cows, sheep, goats and “animals you never see.” He called it “Heaven on Earth,” which is the name of his 2026 tour.
Books Were His Refuge
As the oldest child in a Jehovah’s Witness household, he wasn’t allowed to watch television, movies, visit friends, or join extracurricular activities. He said those restrictions allowed him to love reading books, which he said he owed “everything in his trajectory.”
At six, after reading about family dynamics, he concluded, “My parents didn’t really love me, but they took really good care of me.” The 2018 Emmy winner added, “I realized that my mother never really kissed me.” Reading about people who overcame difficult circumstances taught him he could get through life’s challenges.
Divine Detour: Playboy to Parenthood
Taking a different approach than his own parents, Williams leads with love. “Bloodlines don’t matter,” the father of 10, who adopted seven children — his son’s biological siblings. At the time, he made less than $25,000 but believed the Lord would provide enough to raise them. “…I think that’s the only way He could save me was to give me this instant, humungous family,” he said, citing that he had been living in a five-bedroom house “with a woman in each room.”
A Wild Path to Homelessness
You may know that Williams was emancipated at 13, but there’s a mind-blowing story behind it. Williams revealed that he left home clutching a suitcase and a Rottweiler puppy with about $1,200 from cutting grass and shoveling snow. “If you came from a Bible-reading, believing family, you already knew I was fittin’ to do,” he said.
Admitting it “was a terrible idea,” he recalled going to a truck stop with his sights set on L.A., but ending up in Miami, where he spent eight hours a day reading at the library and slept on a mattress in a “gated” homeless community. He sold his purebred pooch to survive and lived among professional people “destroyed” by drugs, learning from “the harshness of life.” Two years later, he said his parents found him walking down a highway and took him to Haiti to do missionary work.
From Salesman to Pimp
Williams sold books, magazines and cleaning products door-to-door before one encounter changed his path. He knocked on the door of five “ladies of the night” whose pimp had been murdered and stepped into the role under their guidance. He credits them, and his mother, for teaching him about male-female relationships.
Prince Changed His Life
At 12, Williams met 18-year-old Prince, who mistook him for being his age. Williams’ first girlfriend was related to Prince and introduced them. Reflecting on the encounter, he asked, “You ever meet someone and think, ‘Ooh, this person’s way smarter than me?’” Prince, shorter than Williams’ petite five-foot-five frame, was rich, famous and purposeful. It showed Williams that insecurities like height don’t matter; you just “have to be in the right position and be right, myself.”
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