Selah Marley, daughter of iconic singer Lauryn Hill and entrepreneur Rohan Marley, and the grand-daughter of Caribbean legend, Bob Marley, shared her deepest pain in a two-hour Instagram Live on Monday where she revealed her family trauma and childhood drama, and her present path towards healing.
The very eloquent and self-aware 21-year young Queen, shared her heart, soul and unadulterated truth with her audience of 153,000 fans. The original video has since been removed.
Selah Marley Issues Statement On Viral Video On Family Trauma
According to MadameNoire: The conversation pulled the veil back on her relationships with her parents including her thoughts on her absentee father and how she suffered spankings at the hands of her mother, due to what she believes was unresolved anger. As the second oldest child of their union, she explains that she is angry, lost and traumatized because of what she was witness to.
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In the same MN article, Selah talks about how devastated she was that her father was absent, her disappointment that her parents couldn’t make their relationship work (despite having five children together), Lauryn Hill being physically abusive, her own mental health and therapy.
“I’m scared to be like them. I’m scared to be like them bro,” Selah shared in her initial video.
On Rohan:
“I was on google researching what’s it like to have a father,” she said. Selah said she feels lost, and realizes that her boyfriend cannot fill the void of her father.
On Lauryn:
“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… It’s crazy, I’m playing this trauma back in my head as I speak to you.” She explained that her mom would order one of the kids to get a belt and then hold both hands up so they were hanging, “as she beat us. Literally, just like that.”
I Don’t Hate My Mother, I Just Prefer To Stay Away From Her!
“And then the threats, the constant threats… That belt man. That’s that slave s–t. That was some slavery s–t. All Black parents were on that s–t,” she continued.
Selah Speaks On Healing From Generational Trauma
In her latest video titled, “Clarity” Selah self reflects for over an hour and half, expressing her decision to share details of her family life on social media, in hopes to help someone else raise the rug and deal with their family issues.
At the 11:10 mark she stated this…“Ultimately I’m not gonna keep going into my family. What we can talk about though, is how it’s important for people to have these conversations with their family. So, I hope that you guys take this information and use me as an example…and let this inspire you to talk…for your family. If you have any trauma, let this inspire you to be transparent, and to be vulnerable and to say everything that is on your mind.”
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As she continued, she shared that she rebuked her father and told him he needed to be more responsible. “You got to give back what is not yours. Some things are not yours to carry,” said Selah.
She continued with this powerful statement, “People are not able to have a relationship with God because they don’t have a relationship with their father!”
Check out Selah’s updated video address below:
Raise The Rug On Generational Trauma and Abuse
This generation has a tremendous burden of unraveling all of the generational trauma, pain and curses that are not their fault. Selah is a very brave young woman for publicly sharing her own pain, in hopes to set her soul free, and to help another soul find their healing.
My mental health podcast, IN MY HEAD with Jay Blessed focuses on addressing these very issues towards healing. There are so many people walking around in pain from family trauma and this young woman’s voice just helped them start that healing process.
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