“She was laying into him,” his wife later shared in a documentary.
People close to the family admitted she “could be very violent, but it was nothing compared to what she endured growing up and the stories [they] heard about what she went through with her own mother.”
His father eventually intervened, warning that he would file for divorce if it continued. After that, she never hit him again.
Why he didn’t went to Vietnam
Alongside his dance talent, he was also a strong football player and hoped to secure a college scholarship. However, a serious knee injury ended that path.
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