Jacoby Shaddix

And I just,

I just felt sorry for him.

You know, I just, when I, when I found out like what he had been through and who he was and I just asked him straight up, I'm like, what the fuck?

Like, why did you like never try to like search me out?

And he's like, I thought, I just thought that you would, you just hated me.

I thought you were, you would just reject me.

And I'm like, Oh,

quite the opposite.

Like, I just wanted to like, know who you were, you know?

And that was like, I was a, I was a, that was a tough, but healing moment, you know?

And, and in the process of being a young kid and having this stepdad that, that loved me, I never really like allowed that love to, I never knew how to accept that love.

I knew he did.

Yeah.

And yeah, I think that's what it was.

And my mom is just the salt of the earth, an amazing, loving, compassionate woman that just taught me so much about life.

And she taught me empathy.

She taught me kindness.

She supported my creativity.

And so-

I think my mom, you know, as she remarried, she wanted to provide like a stable environment for me to grow up in.