Tiffany Haddish is trading in her trademark humor for teary-eyed vulnerability.

The comedian got emotional when she opened up about her childhood relationship with her mother in a conversation with David Letterman in an episode of his Netflix interview show, “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction,” which arrives on the streaming service Friday.

Haddish, 39, detailed how a head injury “changed everything” about her mom, Leola.

“When I was 8, about to be 9, she had a car accident and her head went through a windshield,” Haddish said. “By the grace of God she lived, but she had to learn how to walk, talk, eat, everything all over again.”

Re-learning those basic tasks wasn’t the only way the accident affected Haddish’s mom.

“I didn’t want to be with my mom no more,” Haddish said. “She had became very violent and very verbally abusive. You never knew who she was going to be. Every day was like a different day.”

Haddish continued: “I used to be begging my mom if I could go live with my grandma. And my mom would yell, ‘She’s not your momma, I’m your momma!’ “

The “Girls Trip” star got choked up recalling her family struggles.

“I used to think she was demonized. I thought like maybe someone else jumped inside her body, like ‘Where’s my mommy?’ She’s gone.”

Haddish previously spoke about her mother’s accident in her autobiography, “The Last Black Unicorn,” and told The New York Times that her stepfather told her he tampered with the brakes on her mother’s car to injure her family, but instead left her mother with severe brain injuries. Haddish and her siblings ended up in the foster care system.

Other guests in the second season of Letterman’s new talk show are Kanye West, Ellen DeGeneres, Melinda Gates and Lewis Hamilton.

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