Aliyah's Mother, Charlene, always kept a boyfriend or a husband. She was married to Aliyah's father. but by the time she was 3, he had run off with another woman, never to look back. Charlene was heartbroken for a long time. She tried covering it up because she never wanted her daughters to know that she wasn't happy. From time to time, Aaliyah and her five sisters, Jackie, Kennedy, Rolanda, Lena, and Lou Ann would hear their mother crying late at night in her room. Years later, when the girls were grown and living on their own Aaliyah went to the house to give her the great news about a job promotion and her relocation from Detroit to Hawaii. Charlene was not home but her younger husband Jim was there to greet Aaliyah. They crossed the line, and it was catastrophic....

I can't believe I was really kissing my Stepfather; I tried pulling away, just not with enough force to make him stop, I didn't want him to stop.... I love my mother... What's wrong with me? - Aaliyah