Stars Awkward moments: Theron, Rihanna, Minogue and other stars who survived the tragedy

He survived abuse at the age of 9

The richest woman in America, the viewership of her show is flying through the roof, her own channel is on the rise… Oprah Winfrey – this name means success. Her journey is the living embodiment of the American dream. Only now, Oprah’s launch pad was a nightmare and the bottom of life. Oprah was born to a maid and hairdresser, but rarely saw her parents as a child. Oprah spent the first six years of her life with her grandmother in the country. Thanks to her, she learned to read, studied the Bible. True, for the slightest offense, a rod served as punishment… After a while, the mother nevertheless showed interest in the girl and took her to her place in the Milwaukee ghetto. Oprah started going to school (though not as often as required) and socializing with her peers. Carefree childhood? No matter how. Nine-year-old Oprah was raped by her cousin, and after the brothers were molested, their friends and her own uncle continued.

At the age of 13, Oprah got pregnant (by whom exactly) and drank the cleaning product to commit suicide. As horrible as it may sound, Oprah was relieved when the baby died right after birth. Fate gave her a second chance when she ran away from home to her father after giving birth. He did everything so that his daughter could go to college and stand on her own two feet.

He survived abuse at the age of 8

A tough girl who feuds with Timbaland himself and delivers brilliant hip-hop, takes care of herself and spits on mean critics and haters. And he still dreams of the end of the world and people in flames. These nightmares remained with her from childhood, in which her father mocked her and her mother. “He was constantly hitting his mother. And one night he pointed a revolver at both of us and told us to get out of the house right where we were. When Missy was eight, her 16-year-old cousin began raping her. In desperation, Melissa (real name Missy) sent letters to her idols, Michael and Janet Jackson, to get her out of the house. Her mother decided to run away herself when Missy was 13 years old. “At first I lived in constant fear that my father would find us and kill us.

I became a victim of my own fan

Red-haired singer, musician and songwriter Tori Amos was raped by a “fan” in her 20s. Tori formed the band Y Kant Tori Read, which performed in small venues. Once Tory agreed to pick up a fan after a club gig, pulled out a gun and ordered him to strip. This episode knocked Tori off track for ten years. She could not have relations with men and was afraid. It wasn’t until six years later that Tori decided to talk about her tragedy in the song Me and the Gun (“Me and the Gun”), performed it a capella during a concert and ten years after the incident, she got over it. phobia with the help of an organization that helps victims of violence. In 1998, Tori got married and gave birth to a daughter, and only this, according to her, helped her get rid of obsessive thoughts.

He witnessed his parents’ tragic quarrel

Like Missy Eliot, Charlize Theron’s father was a chronic alcoholic who beat his wife and pointed a hunting rifle at his daughter. On June 21, 1991, Gerda Theron shot and killed her husband in front of her 15-year-old daughter during another argument. “I never held a grudge against my mother for what happened – she saved her life as well,” says Charlize Theron about the tragedy.

She was victimized by her boyfriend

Carefree little Rea, a spirited girl from Barbados, a fashionista and a hooligan. Well, how can such a serious problem? The whole world loves her and those around her within a radius of three meters lose their minds with charm. Some have gone really crazy, as happened in 2009 to her boyfriend, the performer Chris Brown. 19-year-old Chris Brown brutally beat 21-year-old Rihanna in a closed car, from which the girl had no chance to escape. Chris even tried to strangle the girl, but the police came to the screams. Later, Chris Brown voluntarily appeared at the station and in court, although at first he denied his guilt. Later, when Brown was sentenced to community service and five years probation, he repented and Rihanna tried to survive what happened. First, the girl got a tattoo: small pistols on the ribs on the sides as a symbol of strength and protection, and an inscription on the collarbone Never fail always a lesson (“Not a mistake, but a lesson”). Like Tori Amos, Rihanna experienced her pain in art. The singer recorded the song Russian Roulette and made a video where she communicates with a criminal during a confrontation. After Rihanna returned to the topic of violence more than once in her songs. So she introduced the song Man Down (“The guy is killed”), where she shoots her rapist in the video. Later, Brown repeatedly admitted his mistake and went out into the world with Rihanna, and recently even got a portrait of a battered woman tattooed on his neck to remind himself of his mistake every day.

He beat cancer

“When the doctors told me the diagnosis, I was speechless,” Kylie Minogue diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005. Before she had surgery and chemotherapy. Kylie lost her hair, weighed 38 kilograms and looked like an old woman with pale skin, especially in the photo of the ubiquitous paparazzi who chased her everywhere. The fight continued for a year and a half, and immediately after the official end of treatment, Kylie resumed her interrupted tour, began writing a book and recording an album, and also created a fragrance. However, Kylie Minogue’s greatest achievement is raising public awareness of the issue of breast cancer. Doctors noticed the emergence of the “Kylie effect”, when many women began to pay more attention to their health and regularly undergo mammography.

He lost a child twice

The first attempts of a British singerBecoming a mother to Lily Allen was tragic. At the end of 2007, 22-year-old Lily Allen and her boyfriend, 37-year-old singer of The Chemical Brothers Ed Simons, announced their pregnancy. In order for the expectant mother to rest and recover from a demanding period, the couple went on a romantic vacation to the Maldives … where Lily lost her baby. Soon after the tragedy, the couple broke up and Lily began to rebuild her happiness. In 2011, the singer married construction company owner Sam Cooper. The reason for playing the wedding was the singer’s second miscarriage. The baby was stillborn much earlier than the due date. However, this time only the lovers who decided to marry were brought together by trouble. And in the same year, Lily Allen became a mother! At the end of 2011, she gave birth to a healthy baby girl, Ethel Marie, and in the summer of the following year, the couple announced the pregnancy again.

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