Gary Brecka

And she like sat me down and, you know, cause I was old enough.

She's like, she's like, I didn't want to like, this isn't me.

Like I just, we, I have to get, we have to get out of here.

Yeah.

And, but I, but she was scared and, you know, that process led to that conversation led to, um, he smashed her face off of the front of a car and knocked her teeth out.

And it became a big debacle and he left like, like we might, it was a big ordeal that doesn't need to be talked about, but he left then.

And at that point, you know, there was a, he put us in a situation where

He didn't want my mom to work.

The controlling, or he had access to everything, the bank accounts, the cars.

And when he left, he took everything.

We had nothing.

He drained the bank accounts.

We had no car.

I remember it was just bad.

And from that point on, you know, obviously everything started to get better, but then I had to watch my mom like battle, you know, kind of like I did when I was a kid, right?

Like where she did everything she could to put food in and give us shelter, you know?

Just, you know, back to working two jobs.

And she was working overnights.

I was taking my brother to school.

She was, you know, she was grinding.