"He warned me that he knew himself and that he would resent me for not having the abortion, and that's exactly what I saw in that courtroom. I didn't see a man who loved his child so much that he wanted custody. I saw a man who hated that child's mother so much he would take custody away from her."
Those are words from Tamika Fuller's personal essay, "Fighting For My Daughter: Power, Wealth, and Hip-Hop." Fuller, who has gone through a very public custody battle with rapper Ludacris, relives the pain in the heartbreaking tell-all.
"He broke down into tears when I told him that I wanted to keep our baby," remembers Tamika, who then writes "he begged me to abort the child whose heartbeat was developing in rhythm with my own. He told me that it would destroy his career and his image." Empathizing with other women married to male celebrities and have had their child taken from them, Fuller says it breaks her heart every day not to be able to properly take care of her daughter, and that she's starting a foundation for women dealing with the same struggles.
"This experience has almost destroyed me, but I won't let that happen. I also never want another woman to feel as alone and hunted as I've felt throughout this process, so I am starting a foundation for mothers who are in similar situations." Fuller ends with writing that though she may not be able to give her daughter the luxuries her father can, with her "she will have everything that she needs."
Source: MadameNoire
