He’d started slapping my mother. It was something because of work. He’d never done that before. Of course he’d never slap me no matter what I’d done: I was only eleven.
         Daddy’d always been patient and kind, but something had changed. He looked at his phone all the time, and the things we talked about, him and me and mom, weren’t as interesting any more, and nobody really laughed.
         Uncles and friends and aunts used to come over. Now I heard daddy on the phone raising his voice at them. So now it was just school and TV for me and nobody came over on weekends to have a little party and play videos and dance. Sometimes dad didn’t spend the weekend with us at all.
         Mommy didn’t seem to mind it at first. We’d watch TV and he’d see something and he’d get up and yell, and mom would say, Just get that man out of your hindquarters, Pete! Pete! And rub her face against his and then we’d all sit down again.
         Then we left. All of a sudden mom and I started a new life. Dad never called, ever, but we had ice cream together on Saturdays until that stopped. Where is he?, I asked mom, and she told me he was a son of a bitch, that he betrayed everyone who ever knew him and that I was way better with him out of my life.
         And now I’m the daughter of the most famous man in the world. He said—and you legit paid for me to tell you this so I’m not gonna let you down—I swear he said this to me the last time I saw him and just a few days before it happened.
         He said:
         I need you to do this for me (I was thirteen by then): There’s a man who has to be stopped. And when I stop him, which I’m gonna do, that man’s friends are going to be mad. So, sweetie, the thing is, it’s better if they don’t have anyone to get mad at, and that’s why you and everybody else has got to hate me.
         He hugged me and although I didn’t really understand, I was very proud of him.
         Alright, then he left and that was the last time I ever saw him, the end. Alright. That’s something I never told anyone until this day, so there’s your scoop. At the time he knew there’d be retribution, and that’s why we all called him a son of a bitch and cried on camera, but things are different now. It all sucked but it’s all over now.
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