For Rice, bullying is a familiar subject that he's clearly passionate about. He filmed an Anti-Bullying public service announcement and has spoken out about it often. In one recent speech at a Baltimore-area high school, he told his own story about his sister being bullied in middle school, when she was hit in the face with a rock.

"My mom was telling me she wanted to let my sister go take care of business, you know, you take care of it one time and maybe she won’t bother you no more,” Rice said (via the Carroll County Times). “I told my mom it’s not the right thing to do. The school will take care of it. We got the principal involved, we got the police involved. I think we got it under control.

“I want to get the message out that some people are not alone. If you feel like you’re in that dark cloud, you got to speak up because the only help to recovery is admitting that something is wrong.”