{"id":2443889,"date":"2019-05-07T19:24:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T01:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=832699"},"modified":"2019-05-07T19:24:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T01:24:26","slug":"common-talks-family-and-relationships-reveals-he-was-abused-in-new-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/common-talks-family-and-relationships-reveals-he-was-abused-in-new-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Talks Family and Relationships, Reveals He Was Abused in New Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Common<\/a> gets deeply personal in his new memoir, Let Love Have the Last Word<\/em>, in which he writes about his relationship with his daughter, his desire to be a husband and reveals that he was allegedly molested as a child, ABC News<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Good Morning America<\/a><\/em>\u2018s Robin Roberts on Tuesday, Common explained the title of his new tome. \u201cI\u2019m talking about love for God, love for community, love for self and love in action,\u201d he explains. \u201cIf we look at things and put love in our core, if we work from that place, that things will shift and change.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the interview, he admits that work often got in the way of his relationship with daughter Omoye, who called him out for it. \u201cI believed that I was doing a good job, right? And when she told me those things, it kind of shook me, because at first I was defensive,\u201d he said. \u201cI was getting angry at some of the things she was saying.<\/p>\n

However, he says that in many ways being confronted by his daughter sparked the book. \u201cI was like man, what\u2019s the best way for me to love her right now? It\u2019s to listen and hear her perspective because no matter what I feel and what I think I did, she\u2019s telling me her side of things and that\u2019s what she feels and through me hearing her out and us discussing things, you know, our relationship has been able to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also opened up about his alleged sexual abuse while he was a child, which he had not previously revealed prior to the book.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was something that I didn\u2019t know if I wanted to talk about, but I really believe that in telling my story other people will be OK with talking about that situation,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd me, I\u2019m a black man, we don\u2019t talk about those issues in ways that we could, so I felt I wanted to create a space for people who have experienced that to be able to share that, that\u2019s part of the healing, to be honest.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo sooner than I told the story, one of my good friends came out and told me that had happened to him.\u201d He also discussed forgiveness, self-discovery through prayer and his hope to be a husband one day and his relationship coach, Michelle Obama.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has given me a lot of wisdom,\u201d he added. \u201cOne great thing that she told me as I was going through this journey was that you have to understand you\u2019re not going to get anyone who\u2019s perfect because you\u2019re not perfect, so understand that there\u2019s some certain things that you will compromise and choose in that partner. But as long as the core values, the values that are most important to you [are found in] that person, you know, marks off on that list, then you\u2019re good.\u201d<\/p>\n

The interview ends with Common humorously freestyling why people should read Let Love Have the Last Word<\/em>. The book is out now.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Common gets deeply personal in his new memoir, Let Love Have the Last Word, in which he writes about his relationship with his daughter, his desire to be a husband and reveals that he was allegedly molested as a child, ABC News reports. In an interview with Good Morning America\u2018s Robin Roberts on Tuesday, Common […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 17:44:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}