Picture: LL Cool J - Producers Guild Awards Beverly Hills California United States Saturday 26th January 2013
Rapper/actor LL Cool J has forgiven his dad for shooting his mother and grandfather and leaving them for dead when he was only four years old.
Truck driver James Nunya shot his father-in-law Eugene in the stomach and estranged wife Ondrea in the back out of frustration over the couple's divorce in 1972, when the Grammy winner and awards host was just a young boy.
Both relatives survived their injuries, and the NCIS: Los Angeles star insists he has since made peace with his dad - even though he was initially reluctant to allow him back into his life.
During an interview on U.S. chat show Oprah's Next Chapter, which aired in America on Sunday (27Jan13), he said, "I guess it would leave you scarred, at four years old, based on how the people around you dealt with it and encouraged you to deal with it. It was tough...
"My family is a very interesting family. My mother forgave my father... He came back into my life and made amends for a lot of things by helping to guide me with my music career early on, and kinda helping me in that area (sic). My father made a massive blunder, but he also did a lot of things right."
It's a little annoying that this high-concept marketing project (Rocky vs Raging Bull!) is as...
Is it that Samuel L. Jackson's character is nicknamed "Hondo"? Could it be the sequence...
In Mindhunters, a serial killer uses broken watches to reveal the time he's going to...
The only thing "too deep" about this movie is the apparent lack of respect its...
There's an idea behind remaking old movies that weren't that great in the first place:...
There's only about 22 minutes of plot in "Any Given Sunday," Oliver Stone's innovative, bone-crunching...
A "Taming of the Shrew"-inspired romantic comedy about three buddies who are so in love...
I can just see the lowest common denominator-minded suits at Warner Bros. salivating over the...