Flavor Flav hits Paris to boost his new passion: women's water polo

"I said let me step in and see if I can help these girls out," he said, describing himself as a "sponsor" but declining to detail his level of financial support. "Everybody likes to feel like they have their back covered. It makes them feel more powerful."

"I just recently got in the pool with the girls and I got to learn how difficult that water polo is," Flav said. "It's a very, very hard sport. I was in the water for seven minutes. That was the hardest seven minutes in my life."

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