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lthea with WOVE Inspirations recently had the honor of interviewing Miss Cece, who is a reality TV personality from Love & Hip Hop. In this interview we get to a delve little bit in to Miss Cece’s story, and her advice for anyone dealing with abuse. So Ms. CeeCee thank you so much for wanting to share your story tonight.
Thank you for having me, really. It is an honor and a blessing. So Ms. CeeCee as you know, everybody has a story to tell and with any story there has to be a beginning. So tell me a little bit about what it was like for you growing up?
I grew up on the streets of Compton, so I knew what loyalty was before I could spell it. And because I came from where I came from, I have always lived kind of a hard life where I didn’t take no wooden nickels and wasn’t passing out none. I love it, so as you were growing up, what were some of the experiences that you had? Because you said that it was kind of a rough life for you, so what were some of the things that you were going through in your younger days?
By the time I was 13 I was a fullfledged gang member. I have done things I’m not really proud of. That’s real hard for me right now. I’ve done
things I’m not proud of, but I did things that I had to do for the crew. I don’t know if you understand that or not?
Yes, Ma’am I do. So in your journey as a teenager having to do some things that you didn’t want to do, was there a father figure in your life?
My stepfather was amazing. I could drive a truck by the time I was 12, a diesel truck. We had Kenworth’s, I could drive the truck, couldn’t drive with the trailer on it, because I couldn’t push the trailer behind me, but I could drive a whole tractor. Change tires, because we had a tire shop, I was a beautiful young girl, I was beautiful as a kid, beautifully built, all that, it didn’t mean nothing to me because of what I had gone through earlier. You know I’ve even had some of my mom’s boyfriends before my stepfather - who I loved, and came, to me he was like a rescuer - to fondle me. Okay. And usually what happens with that, that’s where the, I want to say acting out, comes in to play, because what they did is they took something that wasn’t theirs and they manipulated it for their pleasure. And so now, you’re, as a young lady, trying to recapture that same thing the way that it’s supposed to be for you, but then you had to basically rediscover yourself through other, different, people.
So in making your decision, going in to a gang and any other things that you did, that’s basically the foundation that started it all.
Yeah, that’s why I fought back. I think that was my reason for wanting to fight back. I think I thought every man who ever did something to me I think that was my reason for fighting back. And so as you got older let’s like around in your twenties or so, was there ever a relationship that was like okay yeah, I can see myself being with that person?
I had my son when I was 19. His father pursued me from the time I was maybe 14, he pursued me. By the time I was 19 and had my son, he was totally out of the picture. I was just a piece of ass to him, I didn’t understand that then because I had never been with nobody. So to him I was that amazing piece of ass that he wanted to get that everybody wants. I had my son at 19 and I met a man, I can call him a whole bunch of things, but I met this guy, whose name was Robert Myers, and you can print his name. I married him and he beat me from Amazing Grace to a golden opportunity. My God. Okay. And what age were you when you got married to Robert?
I married him when I was 20. My son was a baby. This guy made me
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