Jewel Claims Her Own Mom 'Embezzled All Of My Money' -- Wait, It Was HOW MUCH?!
22.03.2023 - 19:51
/ perezhilton.com
Jewel was dealt a very tough hand growing up. And in some ways, it only got worse after she became famous.
The four-time Grammy nominee opened up about her tough childhood and her mother’s alleged shady financial activities in a new podcast interview — Verywell Mind Podcast with host Amy Morin — on Monday. In it, the singer born Jewel Kilcher, claimed her mom “embezzled” an unbelievable amount of money from the recording artist early on in her career.
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The now-48-year-old singer recounted it shockingly plain language:
OMG!!
A hundred million dollars?! How the f**k…
Jewel didn’t get into specifics about how the alleged embezzlement was supposedly carried out. But the Who Will Save Your Soul crooner — who has sold nearly 30 million albums worldwide across her long career — did explain the aftermath.
She was a 34-year-old celeb suffering through massive seven-figure debt with a fractured relationship with her family:
So sad for her! The financial aspects are bad enough, but the mistrust and deceit that comes with it is just… UGH!
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The Pieces of You songbird dove deeper into some of those awful domestic dramas, too. She recalled her parents divorcing when she was just eight years old. At that point, her father Atz Kilcher took on the more active role in her life. In fact, the singer claimed on the podcast, it was her mother’s apparent desire not to be a mom that set the family problems in motion:
The singer, who alleged her father was an abusive alcoholic, then explained how she was being negatively affected by both parents while growing up. One case was