Singer-songwriter Jewel is getting candid about her relationship with her parents and how it affected her mental health.
On a recent episode of Verywell Mind Podcast with Amy Morin, Jewel shared that her mother Lenedra, who was her manager, stole “all of her money,” which was over $100 million, Fox News reports.
“I didn’t really realise what my mum was until I was 30-something. I woke up and realised she embezzled all of my money, over $100 million,” Jewel said.
Thirty-four years old, realise I’m $3 million in debt, realise my mum stole it, realise everything I thought my mum was, isn’t what she was, very difficult psychological thing to come to terms with,” Jewel continued.
Speaking of her childhood and her relationship with her mother, Jewel said, “My mum and dad got divorced when I was 8, and we went to live with my dad. Nobody told me it’s because my mum didn’t want to be a mum. She left us, and so my dad took over raising us. I didn’t know that at the time.”
The award-winning singer shared that she grew up with an abusive father.
“My dad was this volatile alcoholic that hit me, very easy to identify ‘bad guy.’ My mum seemed like the opposite. She was calm, she was soft, she never yelled, obviously never hit me. And I didn’t realise I was being abused in another way at the time,” Jewel explained.
In her 2016 memoir “Never Broken,” Jewel also shared the stories about her childhood. - Read the full article on Adelaidenow