At least there’s a happy ending here.
Nicki Minaj didn’t have the easiest of childhoods growing up in Trinidad and Tobago, and it was largely due to her abusive addict father, Robert!
The rapper recently told Now magazine about her childhood, saying:
“A lot of arguing, lots of screaming ├óΓé¼ΓÇ£ there were holes punched into the walls in anger and cops being called to the house all the time. I was afraid, very afraid that something would happen to my mother├óΓé¼┬ª My mother left him many different time and came back. One time he pulled my mother out of a car and dragged her two blocks.”
Horrible, right???
Nicki’s mom Carol also told The Sun:
“My husband used to get high on cocaine and alcohol and would come home and terrorize the whole family.”
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She added that he punched her in the face and hit Nicki, along with her brothers Micaiah and Jelani.
But all of this is what has driven Miz Minaj to be successful! The rapper previously told Rolling Stone:
“When I first came to America, I would go in my room and and kneel down at the foot of my bed and pray that god would make me rich so that I could take care of my mother.”
The good news is that triumph definitely came out of all of that tragedy!
Still, we hate that she had to go through that!
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