Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood star Moniece Slaughter opened up about her daddy issues that altered the direction of her life from childhood to adulthood.
In a lengthy post on social media, the 32-year-old Los Angeles native introduced her biological father, Michael Lloyd. She explained that her father disowned her and she was “reciprocating the extreme disrespect he’d unjustly bestowed” upon her mother.
“You won’t find him on [Instagram]… I can’t even find him in real life,” she wrote. She went on to say her father disowned her for coming out as a bisexual, and because he didn’t want his other children, Kyle and Lauren, to be associated with Moniece because of her portrayal on reality TV and for coming out.
In her heart-wrenching post, Moniece said she feels nothing for her father after making it through the stages of grief and loss (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance).
“I used to feel so hurt. Then I felt angry. Then I felt slightly empathetic. Now I feel literally noting about the matter. It took a while. Then I released. Relieving him of his moral obligation & God given right (he had no legal rights), to love & be there for me….
Moral of the story you ask? He helped make me. He didn’t raise me. He loved me in the only way he knew how. It just wasn’t the best for me. I realized that it wasn’t my fault. I didn’t ask to be here. I didn’t get to pick my parents. It wasn’t my loss. It was his. I’m the child, whether I’m 3mo. Or 32rs. He’s the “parent.” It was always his job to show me I was wanted by him. That I was loved by him, He just didn’t know how.”
Although some women who fail to bond with their fathers in infancy grow up to be lesbians, bisexuals, or strippers, Moniece had a loving mother and a father figure who filled that void.
Child experts say homosexuality is caused by a variety of environmental factors. Most notably the lack of bonding between a child and the same-sex or opposite sex parents.
She is bisexual by choice, but she gave birth to a beautiful son, Lil Fizz, to complete her life mission.
“God had something bigger & better in his will for me. And I was very loved, indeed. Not only by my mother, but by my Father, Dave @davetake6. A heavy presence in my life. My son’s life. And everything that we do & are. I wanted for nothing.”
