Rosa Salazar Quotes

I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

Womenfolk raised me, and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home.

I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.

I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents.

I had a very turbulent and painful childhood, like many people. I left for college when I was 16 years old and up until that point I'd lived in five different family configurations. Each one ended or changed through a death or some terrible loss.

I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.

I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.

My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15.

I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.

There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

I grew up in a broken home.

Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. It was pretty, pretty dysfunctional, and whose isn't?

My family's messed up, for real.

I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes

I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.

I come from a broken home. My parents split up when I was nine. Everyone gave me a good wallop. But I come from a time when you just put up with that, you got on with things rather than sitting moaning about them.

Any kid who grew up with an alcoholic parent will tell you how nauseating it feels never to know what it will be like when you come home.

My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don't have any issues. I'm not suffering some secret angst.

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

I know plenty of Hollywood kids who still struggle with being whole. Their lives are never fully their own - always in the grip of a parent who put celebrity ahead of them.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just make it up. A lot of things were true and abusive and horrible things that happened to me that my father did.