'Fast & Furious' star says mother forced him to act like he had special needs for government check

Tyrese Gibson revealed the shocking lengths his mother took to get extra money from the government when he was a child.

The actor was raised in a Los Angeles neighborhood in a single-parent household. He had one brother and two sisters. "She was just basically like, ‘We got to go up in there and make them believe that y’all got some issues.'" Caroline Thayer is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. Follow Caroline Thayer on Twitter at @carolinejthayer. Story tips can be sent to caroline.thayer@fox.com.

"My mama made us go to [the] Social Security building and play r-----ed," the "Transformers" star revealed. "Straight up – government cheese."