Grammy Award-winning singer Alicia Keys has shared a letter she wrote to her dad when she was 14 years old.
The artist took to her Instagram account to show fans the contents of the letter which contains some harsh words to her parent.
Part of the letter reads:
All I want is for you to mind your own business. I don’t want the phone calls. I don’t want the letters. I don’t want anything. That’s the only way you can make me happy.”
Speaking on the letter which her dad recently showed her, Keys said:
In the early part of my teens, I wrote this letter to my father, Craig. I wanted nothing to do with him. My words came from a place of vulnerability and longing. At the time it hurt so much to experience what felt like empty promises. I swore I didn’t care, but I did and it affected me deeply. I finally had enough and wrote those words. It’s CRAZY that he kept this letter after all these years. I was so shocked when he first showed me. It was tucked away in a shoebox full of memories. I’m glad he and I can look back at it now as a sign of how far we’ve come.”
See her post below: