While she’s briefly touched on the subject before, Christina Aguilera is opening up a little more about some of the horrible things her family went through because of her abusive father. She talks about how the abuse by her father Fausto, who she is now estranged from, inspired her to use music as an outlet for her pain.
Per Contact Music:
“I witnessed a lot of unpleasant things – a lot of pushing and shoving and fighting and quarreling. Growing up I did not feel safe. Feeling powerless is the worst feeling in the world. I turned to singing as an outlet. The pain at home is where my love for music came from.”
Aguilera claims that her father terrorized her, her mother Shelly and sister Rachel, during the time that her parents were together. The abuse was so bad that Shelly says she even once found Christina with a bloody chin.
The singer’s mother says, “I scooped her up and said, ‘Oh my God. What’s wrong?’ She told me, ‘Daddy wanted to take a nap and I made too much noise.’”
Aguilera’s mother was eventually able to leave her violent husband, taking her daughters to live with their grandmother. Many years later, her father made his way back into her life, but the reconciliation was short lived. He’s begged for forgiveness from her, but Aguilera says she has no desire for a relationship with him, stating that he is not a ‘necessary’ in her life.
