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Christina Aguilera Opens Up in W Magazine

Posted by Samantha Lui on June 15th, 2011

The last year has been a tough one for Christina Aguilera.

But at the end of it all,  she still keeps her chin up.

Taking on one of two W Magazine covers this month, the 30-year-old songstress opened up about a series of unfortunate events she has suffered over the last year, the childhood pain she still carries and how she keeps stays strong through it all.

Not surprisingly, the singer copes through music.

“I felt caged by my childhood. And unsafe: Bad things happened in my home; there was violence,” she confessed to the magazine.

“‘The Sound of Music’ looked like a form of release. I would open my bedroom window to sing out like Maria. In my own way, I’d be in those hills.”

One of the things she also opened up about, was her film debut Burlesque, which didn’t do well in the box office.

While sad that it failed, she has no regrets about the role.

“During production, I was going through a lot of self-discovery. As a quote-unquote pop star, you have your entourage with you at all times. When you enter and leave a place, backstage, even at home—you always have your team. On the movie set, I didn’t have anyone around me. And it felt good. When I first met my husband, I needed that ­helping hand to take the reins and look after me. After the movie, I grew out of being that little girl: I became more of an adult.”

But now that she is one of four judges on “The Voice”,  Aguilera seems to be experiencing success again.

Having just released a new song with fellow “The Voice” judge Cee Lo Green titled “Nasty”, the singer has also launched her new perfume, Royal Desire, on Wednesday.

Aguilera seems to be back on track to happiness.  Hopefully, better things will come her way in the near future.

 

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Katy Perry Speaks out on her Christian Upbringing

Posted by Samantha Lui on May 3rd, 2011

A flashy, sexually-charged pop star in her public persona, Katy Perry’s serious side comes out when interviews turn to her religious upbringing.

Raised by Christian missionary parents, Perry lived within an evangelical world that she now realizes was close-minded and limited.

“I didn’t have a childhood,” Perry said during an interview with Vanity Fair magazine.

“”I was always scared I was going to get bombed when I was there… I didn’t know it was more than that, that it was for women and their needs. I didn’t have insurance, so I went there and I learned about birth control.”

Perry also told the magazine that she wasn’t allowed to use words such as  “Devil Dog” or “Dirt Devil”, and that her family was “very non-accepting.”

Now married to comedian Russell Brand, Perry is now a practicing Buddhist and doesn’t shy away from flaunting her sex appeal.

Meanwhile, Perry’s mother is now shopping a book about raising the star in which she says that she thinks her daughter could become a great televangelist.

“I recognized the psalmist gift in her performance. Yet she sang out, ‘I kissed a girl, and I liked it,’ while thousands joined her. One part of my heart soared… the other part broke for the thousands of hungry souls being fed something that didn’t nourish their spirit, but fed their flesh,” she said.

Well, at least her mother has become more accepting of Perry’s lifestyle!

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Halle Berry Opens Up About Her Traumatic Childhood

Posted by Megan MacKay on December 27th, 2010

The beautiful Halle Berry is best known for dazzling audiences on the big screen, but few know about her childhood battle with an abusive father in a violent home.

In an interview with CNN, Berry opens up about her past in the hope that it will bring the issue of domestic violence into the spotlight. Berry spent the beginning of her life watching her father physically and mentally abuse her mother before blossoming into the on-screen siren we know today.

“I’ve spent my adult life dealing with the sense of low self-esteem that sort of implanted in me. Somehow I felt not worthy,” Berry, now a mother herself, explains. “Before I’m ‘Halle Berry,’ I’m little Halle…a little girl growing in this environment that damaged me…I’ve spent my adult life trying to really heal from that.”

Berry dedicates an enormous amount of her time to the Jenesse Center, a shelter in Los Angeles that takes in abused women. She also renovates low-cost apartments to provide a new home to victims and their children as they get back on their feet.

Watch Berry’s interview on CNN here:

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2010/12/14/exp.am.intv.berry.cnn

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Shia LaBeouf’s Traumatic Childhood

Posted by Irene Ogrodnik on June 2nd, 2008

“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” star Shia LaBeouf has opened up about his traumatic childhood.

The 21-year-old actor grew up in a part of Los Angeles full of gang crime and even witnessed violence first-hand during the race riots in 1992.

“I saw people get stabbed across the street in the park on a daily basis,” said LaBeouf, who also admits his father was a drug dealer and addict.

“I didn’t get a lot of time with my father. I didn’t really know him until I started working on my Disney show ‘Even Stevens’, and that was because I was paying him to be my parent on set.”

The two have never had a close father-son relationship.

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