Kelly Rowland Opens Up About Reconnecting With Her Estranged Father: ‘He Was Doing The Best He Could’
etcanada.comKelly Rowland is sharing her story of forgiveness and empathy involving her family. The singer co-hosted “Today” with Hoda Kotb on March 15 and spoke on the difficult path to reconciliation with her father. “My understanding of where my dad was as a kid was that he was not really ready as a father,” she recalled. “I was angry at him.
I was disappointed in him. I had all of those feelings of abandonment. I think, as a kid, you just feel like if they’re not there, they don’t want to be here.
So that’s what I felt and that feeling sucked.” Rowland spent nearly 30 years estranged from her father. She told Vogue Australia in July 2018 the last time she saw him was when she was seven or eight years old. READ MORE: Kelly Rowland Sweetly Surprises Her Husband At The Piano During her time touring with Destiny’s child, the 41-year-old had her security team bar her father from meeting her. “I didn’t want to deal with that at the time.
And now that I think about it, I’m like, ‘Ugh. That must have felt terrible,’” she said. “Because here he is watching his daughter… and he doesn’t get to be a part of that.” Her father Christopher Lovett actually appeared on the show to give his side. “People used to tell me, ‘I saw your daughter,’ and I used to sit there and say, ‘Well, I didn’t,’ and it used to hurt.
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