Pattie Mallette was 14 when alcohol and self-loathing began to take the place childhood should have occupied. At 15, she entered a difficult relationship with Jeremy Bieber.
At 17, she no longer wanted anything from life, ended up hospitalized in a psychiatric center in Canada, and there, in the darkest place, she discovered Christianity.
After getting out, she relapsed. She became pregnant. They urged her to have an abortion, she refused, and since she could not return home, she went to a shelter to survive with government assistance.
That was the exact point where everything began to change: she got part-time jobs, a neighbor paid for daycare for a year, she finished high school, and won a scholarship to study web design.
Meanwhile, her son sang on the streets for fun, never out of obligation, although each performance earned him up to 1.000 dollars. She uploaded those videos only so the family could watch him sing.
Today, Justin Bieber is one of the biggest pop stars, and Pattie donates part of her earnings as an author to the same shelters that once saved her.
