Pitbull's mother details estrangement from her children as a result of 'abuse, promiscuity, alcohol and drug use'

After seeing the interview, Pitbull's mom, Alysha Acosta, requested to appear as a guest on the program to answer accusations her children made about their mother abandoning them. Her version of the story was very different from that of her children, and she blamed her own mother for her trials as a young woman and mother, including sexual abuse suffered at the hands of her cousin at 14, as well as physical abuse at the hands of her mother, and mental abuse, detailing how her mother called her a "prostitute" and would beat her. She showed the talk show host the scars to prove it. She also denied that Jennifer, her oldest daughter, helped raise Pitbull.

"I saw part of the last interview on the program with my children, and I heard my oldest daughter, Jennifer, say things that weren't true. Once I heard that, I was insulted. It hurt me. ..."

According to Acosta, Jennifer was the one who abandoned her, after pleading with her to come live with her in Georgia. Remember, Jennifer was only 16.

After arriving in Georgia to find that Jennifer had left to live elsewhere, Acosta said she spiraled out of control. Her story would get worse, after she began to abuse alcohol to self medicate after the alleged abandonment of her daughter. As a result, an American woman was left in charge of her son, Armando, while she stabilized her life. She said that was within a month, or month and a half.

Asked by the talk show host why her children are against her, she said that her story unraveled when she was very young, after her mother, Margarita, abandoned her at 4 years old.

"My male cousin, [Felito] was 13, 14 or 15 [while she lived with her grandmother], and he abused his sister, Maritza, who was 12, and me sexually."

"We [mother and I came to live in New Jersey] I was about 13 or 14 ... My sister and I went with two friends with the boys that lived upstairs [whose parents' house we lived in] to the movies. My mom showed up at the movie theater and sat behind us. When I got home that day, she accused me of being a 'prostitute' and with the heel of a high-heel shoe, she beat me. "

Acosta showed the scars around her eye to Saralegui to corroborate her story.

She also revealed that she was promiscuous as a young woman and that she had problems with alcohol, smoked pot and snorted cocaine, apart from being a topless dancer. It was while working as a topless dancer that she met Pitbull's father. The day they met, she said, they were drawn to each other -- they also ended up in jail.

Acosta said she later came to find, after she and Pitbull's father, Armando, married, that he had mental health issues.

Pitbull defends his mother in the earlier interview with Saralegui.

"In reality, our mother is a genius and a very strong woman. And even though we [his sisters] weren't raised together, we're very strong and kept an open mind to all the trials in life."

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