I've always said, and I always will say everything happens for me and not to me.

And if my parents had supported me, I don't think I ever would have created the career I have

in the way that I did. I think I would have been fine, but I don't think it would

have been at the level that it is. And, you know, if my parents had supported me and been there for me

during this time and not ostracized me, I would have gotten out of an abusive relationship,

but I would have never had my son. So it's like my business and my son, I have really my parents and Lance to think for

and my hard work ethic and my great,

my great creativeness.

But, you know,

those situations that I thought were hindering me actually

gave me two of the biggest blessings

that I could ever ask God for.

And it made me a lot stronger. And so when people

like, well, why, you know, it's hard when I was 19. And, you know, I didn't have any friends at the time

he isolated me from really everyone I was friends with would show up at places I was at. I mean,

anyone in our hometown that was around me at that time knows.

Like, yeah, I'd kicked friends out of my room, barged into our front door, like crazy stuff.

And then that kind of, and I'm not even going to get into the worst of it, but you can use your imagination.

I just threw myself into work because if I was at work, I was away from my parents telling me I was a piece of shit.

And I was away from a man that was abusive to me. And so when people, you know, it's, I love how I played it up.

It's like, I'm just this like super. It's going to make me cry. And I believed that. It's not like I was lying.

Like I told myself, that's why I was doing that, you know? But it was really because I didn't want to admit what I was going through. And I didn't want to be a victim. And I didn't want to be weak because I had already done so much for myself in life to get out of that victim. You know, like wilderness, depression, anxiety. Like, I had to save my

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