In a new interview, the OMG Girlz member opens up about how she was hurt about the way her singer mother and her stepfather rapper acted during her childhood.
- Mar 13, 2023
AceShowbiz - Zonnique Pullins recalled how her mother Tiny's (Tameka Cottle)'s relationship with stepfather T.I. once greatly affected her childhood. In a new interview, Zonnique opened up about how she was hurt about the way her mother acted in her childhood.
"I would say what hurt me is honestly my mom being with Tip all the time. Like even now, today, that's how it is. They're just tied to the hip," the OMG Girlz member explained in a heavily-censored interview on the "Mr. Jay Hill Podcast". "It's like they'd rather go places with each other, so any time, she gotta go, he gotta go."
She admitted that she wished to have more mother-daughter moments. Despite that, Zonnique said that she didn't hold resentment toward her mother. "I don't hold that against her that she was on the road and doing all those things. I guess I would have liked to have those mommy-daughter moments, but honestly, now that I'm a mom, I guess that's what I would have wanted with my daughter," she shared.
After watching the conversation, fans took to social media to share their opinions. "Sometimes mothers don't think to ask the child how they feel… then as the child gets older they show a lil resentment towards the mom ,& whoever the man is !! Making time for your man is cool and all but make sure you do the same w. your children!!" one person said.
"As an eldest child, I get it. It's new. Your person is now someone else's person. This sucks for eldest daughters, you feel like ur mom chose a man over you," another person wrote. One user pointed out how Zonnique didn't call Tip her dad in the interview, saying, "Notice she not callin him pops no more, that was just for the show, fuk around and call him Clifford."
Some others, meanwhile, criticized the amount of things being censored from the sit-down. "I appreciate the journalistic integrity of keeping things off the record…but we ain't have to hear the long bleeps. Just crop that part out," a critic commented. "Why have this convo at all, if the majority of it was bleeped? What's the purpose of the interview? To see if the readers are hearing impaired with the damn beep? She should of just kept the whole thing private," another added.
Prior to this, Zonnique called her mom her "best friend." She said in an interview with Slate back in 2018, "My mom has always been my best friend and my mother all at the same time. With my stepdad, I've obviously been around him my whole life, pretty much since I was 5. But I think now that I'm older and we can have those talks. We're just really comfortable now that I'm grown. I just love my relationship with my parents, period."
