More than 10 years ago, when Toni Braxton discovered she was pregnant — by her then-boyfriend, soon to be husband Keri Lewis — the songbird was in the middle of a six-month prescription of Accutane, a heavy-duty prescription acne treatment which comes with serious side effects for fetuses.
She quickly decided to terminate the pregnancy, but in her new memoir “Unbreak My Heart” she admits that even if she hadn't been on the medication, she would've made the same decision. According to Braxton, her reasons had more to do with convenience than fear her baby would be abnormal.
The 46-year-old singer confesses that for weeks afterward she was wracked with guilt, the result of growing up in a fanatically religious home where she was not allowed to wear pants, would be forced to fast for two weeks a time during Lent and was forbidden to go to the movies.
Years after the abortion, when Braxton’s youngest son, Diezel, was diagnosed with autism she felt she was to blame. “Is God punishing me for that abortion?” she writes.
Braxton realizes that might sound odd, but says she “believed that God’s payback was to give my son autism.”
Braxton’s two bankruptcies are covered in depth, and she blames them on a litany of unfair contracts and shifty managers.
Source: nydailynews
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