Christina Aguilera Opens Up About Domestic Abuse

Christina Aguilera took an opportunity to discuss domestic abuse and how it’s effected her life. While in LA at an event for Hopeline, a service by Verizon that supports domestic violence prevention and awareness, Christina talked to Us Weekly about why she joined the campaign. 

“It’s a subject that really hits home with me because I’ve always been pretty vocal and open about my own experiences in witnessing domestic violence in the home and neighboring homes around me, so it was something that was pretty constant in my younger upbringing,” she tells Us. “It is a hush, hush subject. Not everybody likes to wear it on their sleeve and talk about it. It makes people uncomfortable and there’s a lot of shame around it. But that’s why for me, it’s so important for me to speak my truth and helping others to find theirs and to find their own hope in a hopeless situation.”

This isn’t the first time she’s opened up about the domestic abuse from her father. In her song “I’m Ok” off her 2002 album, “Stripped”, XTina sings, “It hurt me to see the pain across my mother’s face / Every time my father’s fist would put her in her place / Hearing all the yelling, I would cry in my room, hoping it would be over soon / Bruises fade, father, but the pain remains the same / And I still remember how you kept me so afraid.” In 2006 she apologized to her father in the song “Hurt” saying, “I’m sorry for blaming you, for everything I just couldn’t do / and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.”