MINAJ FUELLED BY TROUBLED CHILDHOOD
NICKI MINAJ has opened up about her troubled childhood - she was left tra umatised by her parents’ violent relationship.
The rapper - real name Onika Tanya Maraj - spent her early years terrif ied of her dad, alleging he once tried to set fire to their family home i n Queens, New York, in an attempt to kill her mum.
And Minaj admits that watching her mother suffer inspired her to use th e empowering nature of music to encourage women to be strong.
The star tells Details.com, "He drank a lot and did drugs, and he would get violent when he did. When he set fire to the house, he was attemptin g to kill my mother. She got out before it burned all the way down. I’ve always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn’t be. I thought, "If I ‘m successful, I can change her life."
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