Kenya Moore Talks Her Mother Abandoning Her In New Memoir

44 year old Real Housewives of Atlanta star, Kenya Moore, has made it known that she and her mother had a hard relationship. In excerpts from her unfinished memoir, she talks about growing up in Detroit and vying for her mother’s love.

Moore was raised by her paternal grandmother, Doris. She recalls speaking to her mother, Patricia, on the phone at just 4 years old and was told by her,  “I am not your mother. You can never call me your mother and you can’t come over here anymore.” 

Moore explained the feeling she felt, hearing her mother say those words.  “A burning sensation started in the pit of my stomach, rose to my throat and pushed up until it burst out of my dreamy eyes as tears,” she wrote. “Why was she saying this? What had I done wrong?”

Kenya claimed that, at 4 years old, her father brought her to see her mother Patricia, and Patricia was furious.  “I don’t want to know her. I made my decision four years ago. Nothing has changed. Now leave!” Moore claims her mother screamed.

Kenya recalls visits to her mother’s side of the family. While her mother was actually present at the visits, she completely ignored her.  “When I state that she ignored me, I mean that she acted as if I were invisible, like I did not exist,” she wrote.

Kenya says that she owes her life to her grandmother who worked three jobs to take care of 5 children and an alcoholic husband. Ditched by her own mother, Moore grew up with her grandmother, who worked three jobs to support her five kids and alcoholic husband. “She accepted me into her life,” she wrote. “Now I clearly understand that I owe my life to her. I could have been in a home being abused.”

Kenya and her mother, despite Kenya’s success as an adult, are still no closer to repairing their relationship.  “I think she resents my life, my body, my breath, with every part of her being,” Moore wrote. “I believe she wishes I were dead.”

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