Gloria Estefan reveals a terrifying episode from her childhood.
The 64-year-old Cuban singer, who has sold 100 million records worldwide in thirty years, revealed that when she was nine she was abused by a family member. He told it in a new episode of “Red Table Talk: The Estefans”, a spin-off of Jada Pinkett Smith's “Red Table Talk” series on Facebook Watch.
"I was 9 when it happened - explained the queen of Latin dance - and this person was someone my mother trusted. He was one of the family, but not a close relative. My mother had enrolled me in her music school and from the beginning he began to tell her that I had talent and that I deserved special attention and so she felt lucky that he gave me all this attention ”.
Special attention that actually turned into real sexual harassment. "I knew it was a very dangerous situation - continued Estefan - and when I rebelled and told him 'this can't happen, you can't do it', he replied 'your father is in Vietnam, your mother is alone and I I'll kill her if you tell her. ' I knew he was crazy and I was really afraid he would hurt her, so I made up any excuse to not go to school, I said I was sick. "
Until she found the courage to tell everything to her mother: “The agents told my mother not to file a complaint - he concluded - because they explained to her that I would have had an even worse trauma, if I were on the witness stand. And that's the only thing that makes me feel really bad, knowing that there must have been other victims like me ”.
(Unioneonline / D)
