I get that your moral compass may not condone what she's written, but it's her life, her mother and her feelings. She has a right to them and to express them whatever way she chooses. It wouldn't be your choice, that's cool, but it is her's.

I applaud her for coming forward adn speaking her truth.

You say near the end of your story that her dead mother can't hurt her anymore. Really? I am 51 years old. I was abused mentally and emotioanlly by my mother who made it her mission to let me know I was unwanted and unworthy every day of life. I still hear that shit in my head.

Abuse doesn't end when the actual act ends. Those effects linger for decades. They change the person you are in a very literal sense. It ends when she comes to terms with it, when she processes it and she's doing it in her way. It seems that you are allowing for some "abuse" in teh name of this woman taking her child's careers seriously and the kid being a child star. Yeah, well, I was a gymnastics star and a track star, so? I didn't fail as an adult because of it; I failed as an adult because I was treated like shit and the only person, the one person in life a child is supposed to trust and count on for unconditional love and support, my mother, was anything but.

I built myself back up. And it seems this young lady is trying to do the same thing.

You're right, you didn't know the mother. She knew her mother!

If the dead deserve to be spoekn ill of...I say have at it! But that's just me. You absolutely have a right to your opinion, I just respectfully disagree.