These Musicians Were Terrible People Behind the Scenes

James Brown

James Brown's daughter, Yamma, has long spoken out about the extreme domestic abuse she received as a child of this star. She said that though he never turned the violence onto her, she often lived in fear for the day he would, and it caused her to accept her own husband's domestic abuse for years. She included some descriptions of the violence her mother endured at his hands, and they were almost too gruesome to print...

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.