Her first real love was Corey Miller, a rapper whose stage name was C-Murder, a name which would resonate with irony when he was arrested for the murder of a 16-year-old boy. They were men she thought she could save. The other side was the glittery, polished world of a singing star.īut it was in the darker part of her life that Monica would meet two troubled men, who would forever alter her life. And I went on and I got on the plane and went back to the other side of my other life,' Monica said. That's the kind of stuff that you just can see every day.

Who would have ever thought it was a human, being beat repeatedly by two people with steel bats, over $10. 'Some of her memories of the streets remain vivid, 'As I walk out the door, I hear these blows. I've suffered 'em, I've learned from 'em and then I keep moving. Monica, now 22, said she's learned some hard lessons in her struggle to balance these competing worlds, 'Some of the things that I've chosen have had repercussions. 'I chose to hang in places where I had to witness a lot of things that most people my age wouldn't dream about seeing, and probably couldn't sleep if they did,' she said. The more success she tasted, the more she turned back to the life she knew with her father, a gritty and often dark world. When my parents split, I became two separate people,' she said.īut those two people would eventually collide … Just 12 years old when she was discovered in a talent show, Monica's almost instant fame put her on a fast and slippery track. 'It's kind of like when I say, I'm a mixture of two worlds, that's just what I became. She found herself pulled between two dramatically different worlds: that of her churchgoing mother and her street-smart father. As a child, Monica joyfully embraced music, but when she was 6 years old, her world was shattered by her parents' divorce.

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