On Monday, Lauryn Hill and Rohan Marley's daughter Selah opened up about her relationship with her parents. During her two-hour Instagram Live, Selah revealed the trauma she endured growing up with a father who wasn't around and a mother who used spankings as a way of discipline.
"Honestly guys, I'm just hurting. I can't even front that I'm not," she said. "I've been hurting for so much of my life and so much of my life has been me avoiding how much I'm really hurting just from the circumstances."
Selah referred to her mother as "an amazing woman" but also angry.
"She would spank us to no avail," Selah said. "She was just very angry. So, so, so, so, so, so angry. She was literally not easy to talk to and then half the time we didn't live with her. I lived with my grandparents half the time."
She admitted that the physical discipline calmed down once she became a teenager and is proud of the changes her mother has made over the years. But, the 21-year-old also addressed how witnessing her mother and father's arguments impacted the way she handles relationships before highlighting her father's absence.
"And then it clicked again and I was like, 'Wow, where is my father? Like where is my father?'" Selah continued. "And I just came to [the] conclusion of how much of my life I've f***** up and how much of me is f***** up simply because my dad just wasn't around. And like, there's just a void where there should be a person and it's honestly really hard."
Neither Rohan Marley nor Lauryn Hill has commented on Selah's remarks.
