HIP HOP HISTORY MONTH: 5 Things To Know About Missy Elliot
She’s An Abuse Survivor
Elliott’s childhood was plagued with traumatic experiences. She witnessed her mother be physically abused by her father and even saw him pull a gun on her mother when she was 14-years-old.
“Missy saw that the fight was just beyond measures,” Patricia Elliott said on VH1’s Behind the Music. “My husband said, ‘This is it, I’m gonna kill you. It’s over!’ I was so tired of being beaten over and over I just said, ‘Fine, just do it.’”
Elliott was also molested when she was eight-years-old for a year by a 16-year-old cousin.
“Each day he wanted me to come to the house after school,” she said on Behind the Music. “It became sexual, which, for me at eight years old, I had no clue what that was, but I knew something was wrong…Being molested … it don’t disappear,” she added. “You remember it as if it was yesterday.”
