Well, Michelle and her daughter Brianna say that
her oldest daughter, Tia, who recently changed her name
to Rose went from being a mom with a great job
as a Physician Assistant to being unemployed,
living in her truck, and speaking with what
sounds like a British accent.
Now, Rose, who has not seen her mother and sister
in five years, says she stays away for a good reason.
Pepper Rose is a pin up name that I came up with.
Vintage 50's clothes, can have cowboy boots.
You can have your hair up with sort of a pompadour.
This hat, my goodness, I can't part with it.
If people think I've gone off the deep end,
they need to know that I am just being myself.
This is who I am.
Ms. Pepper Rose is the personality that I portray
when I'm singing.
♪ And the rocket's red glare ♪
When I sing, I feel pretty free.
As a child, my name was Tia.
Tia, that name brings up a lot of painful memories.
I prefer to be called Rose because it brings
more positive memories.
When I think about my mom, I'm disappointed.
My mom was negative, she was controlling,
she was badgering, she would not stop.
I feel like having a relationship with my mom
is impossible because she really hasn't
treated me like her daughter.
She would present these cases where she was
gonna help me and then she would say,
"Oh, but I've changed my mind because you're
"such a bad person or you're crazy."
I would love to have a relationship with my sister,
but my mom is always gonna be in the middle of that.
My mother did play a hand in me losing
temporary custody of my children.
She said that I'm such a habitual liar.
Not having my children in my life in the moment
makes me feel a pretty empty void.
A few months ago, while I was praying the rosarie
is when I had my stroke.
When I woke up, I had this new accent.
What I have is called Foreign Accent Syndrome.
I would say talking with this accent is,
it's fun because it's a discussion starter.
People always wanna know where I'm from.
Now, when I speak a joke, I sound like a mix
between like Mary Poppins and Nicki Minaj.
I'm like, I'm not pretending.
This is way too much work.
(ominous music)
Well, how are you this morning?
I'm doing well, how are you?
I'm alright.
This is the first time that you've seen
your mother and sister in a long time, right?
It is, yes.
Do you miss your mother?
I miss the relationship we had
before everything kinda fell apart.
And how do you feel seeing your daughter
for the first time in so long?
Actually, I'm overjoyed.
I have missed you.
I'm just confused.
I don't understand how it happened
and what I could've possibly done to make you think
that I don't love you and that I, I don't know,
that I'm a monster.
Do you love your daughter?
I love her to death, yes I love her
and it hurts me and she thinks I'm meddling
by me getting on social media.
I check that social media about 10 times a day
just looking for posts from you
and when I see that you're on the side of the road
and you're hungry and it's cold and you don't have gas,
I try to find ways to send money.
But you've cut me off.
You've blocked me.
You can say you've been there for me but it's always
come with some other expectation.
I'm only gonna do this for you if you don't date
this kinda person.
I'm only gonna do this for you if you major in this.
You cannot pursue these other avenues.
We have to meet the certain standard in our family
and you can't pursue art, you can't pursue music.
I wasn't just this person that up and decided to
throw away all this education to pursue music.
You can sit here and put highlight reels
and act like everything's perfect for years of your life
when you're internally struggling with anxiety,
pressures at work, pressures to be a mom,
to breastfeed, to be this perfect wife,
to have these perfect meals, to have perfect family photos,
and to tell me that nothing's every happened
that would make me feel like you didn't love me
and nothing's ever happened that would make me
feel like I couldn't turn to you is wrong.