Drake Threatened to Quit ‘Degrassi’ Over His Character’s Wheelchair Storyline, Writer Says

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It's entirely possible that a majority of Drake's fans were introduced to him as a rapper rather than as Aubrey Graham, child actor behind the character of Jimmy Brooks on Degrassi: The Next Generation. In the teen drama's fourth season, Jimmy is paralyzed after a school shooting and becomes a wheelchair user, one of the show's most iconic character arcs thanks in no small part to Drake's subsequent superstardom.

Before he was the ‘Champagne Papi,’ Drake was just neighborhood teenage heartthrob Jimmy Brooks on the Canadian hit television series Degrassi: the Next Generation. Even though the “Flip the Switch” rapper was part of the cast for seven seasons, Drake almost left the show after his character was shot and confined to a wheelchair toward the end of his time on the show.

Degrassi: The Next Generation has revealed that Drake threatened legal action against the show, in which he co-starred, over a wheelchair storyline.The rapper appeared as Jimmy Brooks in the Canadian drama from 2001 over seven seasons.However in a recent oral history of the show to mark its 20th anniversary, writer James Hurst explained that the then actor pursued legal action after his character wound up in a wheelchair.“There was a letter from a law firm in Toronto, and it was from Aubrey

If Drake got his way, Jimmy Brooks would’ve had a very different ending on Degrassi. According to a writer on the teen drama, the rapper, whose full name is Aubrey Drake Graham, threatened to quit the series if his character remained in a wheelchair after season 5.

Drake was willing to do whatever it takes to get Jimmy Brooks out of his wheelchair.

Drake nearly quit Degrassi: The Next Generation over a certain storyline.