Selah Marley said the spankings she received from her mother “some slave sh * t.” We do not hear much about the personal life of Lauryn Hill. Over the years, she has become pissed off about her reputation as an artist who will not appear on time – if at all – at her live events, and her romantic relationships have been kept under wraps. Her children have been left out of the spotlight and out of the gossip blogs, except for daughter Selah who shares them with Rohan Marley. On Monday (August 10), Selah spoke candidly with the audience about her relationship with her parents on Instagram Live. The two-hour dialogue was fairly public as she talked about the “trauma” she went through growing up dealing with an absent father and a mother who used discipline as a means of control. Selah said she would google what it was like to have a father and admit she had serious daddy issues. “Honest guys, I’m just hurt. I can ‘t even pretend I’m not,” she said. “I’ve hurt so much of my life and so much of my life has hurt me, how much I really hurt just out of the circumstances.” Selah called her mother “a great woman”, but detailed the spankings she would receive. “She would reach us uselessly,” Selah explained before giving an example. “She was just very angry. So, so, so, so, so, so, so angry. She was literally not easy to talk to and then half the time we did not live with her. I lived half with my grandfather and Grandma … It’s crazy, I play this trauma back in my head when I talk to you. “She would have one of the children” get the belt “and when she came back, she would hold her hands up , so they hung “when she hit us. Literally, just like that.” Selah made a squeaking motion with her phone cord and said that even the sound destroyed her. “And then the threats, the constant threats … That beltman. That’s that slave sh * t. That was some slavery sh * t. All black parents were on that sh * t.” She admitted that things calmed down when she became a teenager. See Selah talking through her personal issues and realizations about herself below.
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