Naz Reid: 'My mom and my grandmother have been through a lot. That’s where I get my pain tolerance from'

He got up because his grandmother, Linda, always got up to take care of a young Naz when his mother was teaching preschool or stuck at any number of odd jobs she needed to make sure the lights stayed on and the refrigerator was full. “My mom and my grandmother have been through a lot,” Reid said. “That’s where I get my pain tolerance from.