Gloria Estefan’s Daughter Says Mom Told Her Not to Come Out to Grandma: ‘I’m Never Going to Forget That’
Gloria Estefan’s daughter, Emily Estefan, came out as gay, she did not get the reaction she expected from the “Conga” singer.“I was like, ‘Hey, I’m in love with this girl.’ The first thing you said was, ‘If you tell your grandma and she dies, her blood is on your hands,’” Emily, 25, tearfully recalled to Gloria, 63, on the Wednesday, October 14, episode of their family’s Facebook Watch series, Red Table Talk: The Estefans. “I just wasn’t ready for that, because I understand my grandma was old, but it made me feel like whatever it is, OK, hide it.