Keke Palmer’s Former Supervisor Mentioned Her Mother Would Die if She Did not Lose Weight

Keke Palmer had an interplay together with her supervisor that left her scarred.

In a latest interview with The Minimize, the Emmy winner, 31, revealed {that a} former supervisor as soon as criticized her mom’s well being.

Palmer, who was 12 on the time, recalled them saying her mom would die if she didn’t shed some pounds.

“That basically, actually traumatized me and harassed me out,” she mentioned. “It acquired me pondering she was going to die, fascinated about issues like medical payments. It was simply an excessive amount of.”

It was simply one among many troublesome experiences Palmer, who stars within the upcoming film One among Them Days, had as a baby actor.

She additionally recalled feeling the strain to land new performing roles as a result of she was supporting her household financially. 

“I hated my mother and father for a very long time,” she instructed the outlet. “There was a lot strain to rise to the event for my neighborhood, for my mother and father, for my siblings, for his or her sacrifices. They weren’t saying it, however that was the fact.”

The actress was 10 years outdated when she made her on-screen debut within the 2004 film Barbershop 2: Again in Enterprise. That 12 months, she went on to star in episodes of the tv exhibits Chilly Case and Sturdy Drugs, in addition to the tv movie The Wool Cap – which nabbed her a Display screen Actors Guild nomination for excellent efficiency by a feminine actor. 

Palmer went on to develop into a tv common within the aughts, starring within the Disney Channel unique film Soar In! and headlining the Nickelodeon sitcom True Jackson, VP.

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Talking solely with PEOPLE in an October 2024 interview forward of the discharge of her memoir Grasp of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative, she recalled being in an inappropriate relationship whereas filming the Nickelodeon sequence. 

“I used to be 15, he was 20,” Palmer mentioned of the unidentified particular person. “I used to be attempting to steadiness between being actually younger, but additionally feeling fairly mature. If I believed it was inappropriate, then I would not have finished it.”

“Clearly I shouldn’t have been 15 relationship no 20-year-old,” she added, “however in my thoughts it was like ‘I acquired a full-time job. . . . Can’t no person perceive me however a grown man.’ However he knew there was a whole lot of stuff that there isn’t any rattling approach for me to grasp at rattling 15.”