We’re sure you didn’t know these details about the life of one of the most famous stars in the world. His mother had to take a very difficult path, but today she is so proud of her son.
“My childhood was dominated by sexual abuse and violence. I was attacked for the first time around the age of 3. My attackers included a babysitter, the grandfather of one of my friends, and neighborhood children who were allegedly beyond their age. I was sexually raped so many times that over the years it started to seem normal to me,” says Justin Bieber’s mother.
The other side of the coin in his mother’s childhood
Pattie Mallette, a Canadian screenwriter and film producer in her 40s, is also Justin Bieber’s mother and oversaw his early musical efforts.
Pattie gave birth to Justin when she was 17 and was emotionally distraught because she was still single.
Quoting Mallette: “My childhood was dominated by sexual abuse and violence. I was attacked for the first time around the age of 3. My attackers included a babysitter, the grandfather of one of my friends, and neighborhood children who were allegedly beyond their age. I was sexually raped so many times that over the years it started to seem normal to me. It’s a strange marriage, knowing something is wrong yet finding it familiar and mundane.
She began using alcohol, weed, and acid at the age of 14. She also started stealing from stores.
They expelled her after she set fire to a school toilet, committing an act of vandalism.
She started dating Jeremy Bieber when she was 15, and the couple dated for four years.
At the age of 16, she ran away from home and has since survived through a combination of petty theft and drug dealing.
She felt alone, depressed and suicidal throughout this period. A suicide attempt at the age of 17 landed her in a psychiatric hospital. There she converted to Christianity.
After Mallette was released from the hospital, she attempted to reconnect with old acquaintances who did not share her new religion.
And she talked to Jeremy Bieber again. She became pregnant six months later.
On March 1, 1994, in London, Ontario, Mallette gave birth to her son Justin. Mallette and Jeremy Bieber continued their relationship for a while after the birth of their son, but eventually broke up.
After two years of interest in music, Mallette supported her son’s abilities.
She entered Justin, then a teenager, into the 2007 Stratford Star talent show, where he sang Ne-Yo’s “So Sick” and placed second.
A video of the performance was uploaded by Mallette to YouTube for her family and friends to watch, and she continued to do so to follow the performances as her son gained Internet notoriety.
His autobiography, titled “Nowhere but Up”, was published by the Christian publishing house Revell in September 2012.
The book details Mallette’s difficult upbringing and her journey to overcome abandonment and single parenthood to build a strong faith and a life full of grace and optimism.
On the New York Times bestseller list, it debuted at position seventeen.
The book has been reviewed in numerous publications around the world.
Although Justin did not have a traditional family upbringing, his mother assured him that he would be able to provide the same for his own children.
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