Speaker shares emotional family reconciliation
From Come Back Podcast
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Transcript
He really, truly took a look at himself and realized that the way he was acting towards me had to change. My dad's full Samoan, and so I don't know if you know much about the Samoan culture, but, yeah, I do. Yeah. The discipline is intense, so there's a lot of control and ownership that's very prominent even when you're older. When I came back, he just truly was so vulnerable with me. I could see in his eyes he was just so happy that I was back. And I honestly felt so happy to be back. And it was just the most beautiful moment to really see how much he had changed. It was such a beautiful moment of forgiveness that I had as well, because I just wanted to be Daddy's little girl, you know, again. I. Since then, yeah, my family have been such a big part of my life. Yeah. They're just honestly my rock. So I still. I moved to Melbourne and I still continued to pursue acting. Then I ended up having a brief relationship with someone who was in the acting course and who had been a little bit more experienced than me in the acting world, the acting industry. So he'd kind of seen a little bit of, I suppose, what the industry could really be. Like, certain things that I was revealed, you know, it scared me. Hollywood could be really dark place. Yeah. And I think I hadn't really been exposed to that much darkness that it really sort of. Yeah. It made me realize, like, this was around the same time that all of the stuff about Diddy came out. Yeah. And so it was like all of this stuff coming to light about the darkness that's actually going on behind these people that are in power. It just really made me think, like, if there's this much darkness that's actually.