This star became a 10 year old mom to 3 little kids when her mother was gone!

were already fragile. Her father left when she was still very young, leaving her mother to carry everything alone. For a time, there was still structure—long hours, multiple jobs, but also effort, care, and a sense that things, though difficult, were being held together.

Then that structure gave way.

When she was nine, her mother was involved in a serious continue reading …