Alicia Keys Opens up on the Complicated Relationship she had with her Dad to Encourage those Going Through

While growing up, Alicia Keys did not have the best relationship with her dad and that affected her deeply.

The singer took to her Instagram to share a heartbreaking letter she wrote to her then estranged dad, Craig Cook when she was just 14-years-old. The star’s dad left when she was 2 and she was raised by her mom.

In the letter that says he treated her ‘as if I was never born’, Alicia Keys poured out her heart to her father, telling him she was tired of being stood up by him, tired of waiting for him to show up in her life, and that she didn’t want to see him anymore.

She said that in spite of the letter, she hoped he would fight to be in her life, but he never replied her letter. In what she calls her “divorce papers” from her father, she concluded, “I don’t want anything. That’s the only way you can make me happy.”