The Cuban-American singer told her niece Lili Estefan and daughter Emily Estefan her highly personal story, explaining that she was abused by “someone my mother trusted.” “He was family, but not close relatives,” she noted. “He was in a position of power because my mother had enrolled me in his music school, and he immediately began telling her how talented I was and how I required particular attention, and she felt fortunate that he was concentrating this type of attention on me,” Gloria added.
“I realized this was a really dangerous situation,” as soon as the abuse began, the singer added. Gloria’s abuser, whose identity she did not provide, threatened her mother’s life when she “revolted” against him. “He says, ‘Your father is in Vietnam, your mother is alone, and if you tell her, I’ll kill her,'” Gloria recalled on the family chat program. “And I knew it was weird because I never thought this was occurring because of me.” “I knew the man was insane, and that’s why I was afraid he’d hurt my mother,” she continued.
Gloria then described how she kept the abuse hidden from her loved ones for a long time, but that the burden of doing so eventually caught up with her. “A circle of hair fell out of my head as a result of my nervousness.” “I finally raced to my mother’s room one morning at 3 a.m. because I couldn’t handle it any longer,” she explained. “I also informed her of the situation.”
All the above information is according to hollywoodlife.com.
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