Christian comedienne Chonda Pierce has testified that God helped her cope with multiple tragedies in her life through comedy and laughter.

"In about a two-year period, everything I knew, in terms of security, comfort and my foundation, had changed for me. My father was not a good person. He was not a consistent Christian man. He was very difficult to live with and difficult to be around as a child. That was my childhood," said Pierce, according to Charisma News.

The "Queen of Clean" further expressed her personal hardships in the interview.

"Within a two-year period, my big sister was killed in a car accident - she was 20 - and about 19 months later, my little sister died of leukemia. She lived only 21 days after being diagnosed. Everything was such a whirlwind. My mother and I had to move out ... and find a new life. My father had eventually left the family. They used to make a joke, 'Well, you'll find out how saved you are when you share a bedroom with your mother.' My mother prayed for me out loud every day-and I'm in the bed with her. Out of that great dysfunction came some really great material," said Pierce.

Pierce explained what made her want to become a comic over two decades ago.

"Sometimes I feel like comedy found me. But I also believe that it's the way the Lord works sometimes," said Pierce." "I got a job at a theme park in Nashville called Opryland USA. I was simply trying to pay my college bill. They gave me the part of impersonating Minnie Pearl. I fell in love with her and that character. I fell in love with the sound of people laughing. It's almost cliché now that we say laughter does good like a medicine, but for me it became medicine."

She also explained what made her decide to accept Jesus Christ into her heart many decades ago.

"There is no other explanation for having to survive the whirlwind life that I had than God [was there for me]. I didn't wind up on drugs or alcohol. I didn't wind up totally washing my hands of the church, which a lot of people do when they've grown up in such a difficult structure," said Pierce. "Laughter came along and became that soothing balm-just a healing oil for me-and it smoothed the edges of my life. ... In those years, there was healing, and I really committed my life to Christ. I got serious about the evangelistic side of what comedy could do, and I wanted to tell my story."