Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life Page #4

My son calls me, I'm at work,

and he goes, Mom,

like, you know,

there's people outside

our door recording

and taking pictures,

from paparazzi to,

even people you knew just made

it different and difficult

having a normal life.

I just was more overwhelmed by--

but just not letting

it shape me like,

not letting the

money kind of shape

what I wanna do as an artist,

like with every family

you had problems

and complications, you know.

Sometimes jealousy and

envy plays a big role.

It's kind of new to them,

it's not really something

that even myself

really could comprehend

at the time.

His mom and dad, they had

a great relationship,

and one day I guess they

were all together home

as a family and then it,

you know, it fell apart.

Chris not having a

father in the house

made him to grow up faster

than what he actually had to.

It was a lot, it was more than

I knew that he could handle.

What I always called it

is, is I'd tell Chris,

it's God's balance,

God is gonna give you

that great opportunity

to be something fantastic,

and then at the same time,

he's gonna level

darkness around you

that's gonna keep you balanced.

So, with a person that's 14, 15,

hopefully they have someone

there to recognize

the dark patches, and say,

"okay, yeah, we can do this,

but you just gotta be

mindful of that. "

Yeah, it was a challenge,

and this growing up

thinking that he was

in this adult world,

and thinking that he could

deal with the adults, too,

but no, just because

it's there for you,

you're not gonna do that,

that is not what you do.

For me, having my mother

there created a balance,

and I think it was a bit

difficult, period, for him.

You sound very driven.

- Yeah, definitely.

- Yeah.

- You live with your mom, right?

- Yeah.

I think he felt that he

had to take care of me.

I gotta take care of my mom

because my dad is not there,

I'm the dad of the house,

or he felt that he was

the man of the house,

that's how he thought, and

that's actually what he said.

Your family you expect

to be your family.

So, even family sometimes,

you know, change, and.

At that point, it

was kind of hard,

'cause Chris was back and

forth with me and his father.

Um... and it was hard for his

father because I had left.

He grew up so fast he

didn't really get to have

a childhood or a teenage

life of a normal person.

I actually wanted him

to actually speak

to a psychiatrist

to just prepare him

for what was about to happen,

because he blew up so fast,

knowing that he would not

know how to handle it,

so that he could talk about

it, and how it made him feel,

but we never could

get him to do that.

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