Christina Aguilera`s Shocking Claims of Abuse
HAMMER: Thanks, Charles. Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. I`m A.J. Hammer. Making news right now, Christina Aguilera is opening up about being abused by her father. This is really heart-wrenching. In a new TV documentary, Aguilera claims that her Army sergeant dad not only hit her, but abused her mom and sister, too. She tells "E," "I witnessed a lot of unpleased things - a lot of pushing and shoving and fighting and quarreling. Growing up, I did not feel safe. Feeling powerless is the worst feeling in the world. I turned to singing as an outlet. The pain at home is where my love for music came from." Aguilera`s mom even describes one particularly shocking and horrific incident where she found a 4-year-old Christina with a bloody nose. Here`s what she says about that, "I scooped her up and said, `Oh, my God. What`s wrong?` She told me, `Daddy wanted to take a nap and I made too much noise.`" Now Christina`s dad has asked for forgiveness but she does not want him in her life. Well, we just told you about these shocking results to our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT question of the day about Jennifer Aniston`s movie bombing. And just now, I just got this final results, just handed to me from the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom seconds ago - "Jennifer Aniston`s New Movie, `Love Happens,` Flops: Are you surprised?" Look at this. Only 17 percent of you said you`re surprised; 83 percent of you said you`re not. Here are some of the e-mails. Claudine in Oklahoma, "People are tired of seeing her play the same type of character in the same type of movies over and over." Dawn from Kentucky, "I don`t understand why it has taken this long to figure out Jen isn`t a great actress. Even `good` would be a stretch." Ouch. Not a lot of Aniston friends in our inbox today or in our "Showbiz on Call" phone lines either. Jenny calling in from California adds this -</s>CALLER: I couldn`t agree with you more on the Jen Aniston stuff. Her movies are becoming so formulistic and boring. She needs to fire some people who are working for her because they are feeding her the yes word a little too often. And her movies are enough to make you want to jump off of an airplane if you happen to be stuck in there. Give her a gun. Give her a mystery. Give her, you know, a "Sherlock Holmes" type of movie or something to get her out of the friends want to be girlfriend, boyfriend. They are all so formulistic. They`re old movies that are weak and they`re, oh, really boring. I love you, Jen. Get some work.</s>HAMMER: Yes. I`m still a huge Jen Aniston fan but I guess it`s always going to be hard for her to shake off the Rachael from "Friends" thing. Maybe she will move on to some different types of roles." Well, that is it for SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. Thank you so much for watching. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York. You can always catch SHOWBIZ TONIGHT on the 11:00s -11:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific, and in the morning, we`re on at 11:00 a.m. Eastern right here on HLN. END