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[F] Now to an emotional [Ab] Eyewitness News exclusive.
North Carolina native Kelly Pickler is breaking her silence about her mother who
abandoned her as a baby and who now lives here in the Triangle.
Pickler wrote a hit song about being abandoned.
It's called I Wonder and she broke down while singing it tonight at the CMA Awards.
[Gb] Your little girl [Ab] is from Tennessee.
[Abm]
[N] Recently both mother and daughter were in Raleigh but there was no reunion, no reconciliation.
Just two women trying to deal with the past in raw emotional interviews with our Shay Chrisson.
You know this is the closest you're ever going to get to me because I'm done.
I'm done.
To understand that Kelly Pickler you have to know this Kelly Pickler.
[E] She went from small town Carolina girl to big time country star almost overnight and she did it despite a painful past.
Kelly had mixed emotions before this Reet State Fair performance in Raleigh knowing this is where her mother now lives.
The mother who left her when she was a baby.
The one she [Ab] sings about in her hit song I Wonder.
If [Db] you ever come back [Ebm] [Db] home to [Ab]
Carolina.
[Gb]
[Db] Do what you'd say to me.
This song has really, really not only helped me because writing it and performing it every night has been kind of like therapy [Ab] for me.
But I think it's really helped a lot of other people that might be going through similar [Bbm] circumstances.
I wonder if [Ab] you're out there [Eb] somewhere [F] thinking about me.
I lost my family.
Her mother does think about her, talks [Bb] about her too.
I did what was in the centers for her.
Miss Kelly.
Cynthia Malone used to be Cynthia Pickler.
Now she volunteers for Interact, the Wake County Agency for Domestic Violence Victims.
No one helped.
[C] She says by sharing her story of abuse and the difficult decision as a teenager to abandon Kelly, she hopes to help others avoid what happened to her.
The beatings came more frequently.
I knew I was going to lose my life if I didn't leave.
[N] And I didn't know how to leave.
[C] So I packed up one day and I left.
What did you do?
Off to where the grandparents.
Nobody knew that I was leaving.
Nobody knew what I was [Ab] going to do.
And she didn't know how that decision would affect her and Kelly, who she hasn't seen since she looked like [G] this age 11.
Now 21, Kelly [Gb] uses her story to raise money and awareness for an organization that helps grandparents raising grandkids.
When we asked about her mother's cause of choice, we opened up deep wounds.
OK, she's supposed to be speaking on domestic violence.
OK, a lot of it are a complete lie.
I'm not mad.
I'm not upset.
I'm just hurt because I'm not going to be able to do what I want to do.
She continues to make herself look like the victim.
And she just tells you, tell everyone.
I just wish that I don't know why you want anything to do with me now.
You never wanted anything to do with me in my whole life.
Ever.
But is that true?
Eyewitness News went to Albemarle, where the Picklers lived, and found records that Cynthia did fight for custody.
We also found divorce documents where Cynthia claimed Clyde Pickler was a drinker who also abused drugs and who beat her throughout their marriage.
Claims he denied.
But Clyde has been in and out of jail since the 80s for DWI and breaking into cars and is currently behind bars.
Earlier this year, he was convicted of assaulting his current wife.
But his only assault conviction related to Cynthia was for pointing a gun at one of her relatives in 1985.
Never for an attack against her.
There's so much that's just not out there.
And I'm sick of people looking at me and thinking that, oh, her poor mom, she should give her another chance.
Okay, if my dad or anyone was abusive to her, you're going to leave your kid there to be in the abuse as well?
It doesn't make sense.
There's so many puzzles to this story that have not been put in there.
We'd have been the [Em] same age.
[C] Cynthia sticks to her story.
I interviewed her in Victim's Memorial Gardens, a place she feels her name could have ended up.
Why not take any with you?
The two of you, three [E] together.
I tried one [D] time and he ran [C] my car off the road.
I ran just as hard as I could in my car to in front of the police department.
Now, mind you, I still had a bruised face.
The police officer seen him snatch Kelly away from me.
And she became 50-50 property.
So in order to get her back, I had to go back.
What do you say to Kelly now?
What I would say to anyone [Fm] [C] that is going [D] through that or been through [C] that, there is life out there.
[E] It helped if I could [N] go back into time with the tools that I had today.
Yes, I would [E] have done things I haven't been [N] able to do, but I can.
And I'm [Gbm] human.
I'm a sinner.
I make mistakes.
Mistakes that Kelly is far from ready to forgive.
If she wants to give me any peace at all, then she will stay away from me and not hurt me any more than what she has.
Just leave me alone.
To make sure she was left alone, Raleigh Police working Kelly's concert kept a picture of her mother in their [C] pockets
and kept an eye out for her in the stands in case she showed up and tried to contact Kelly.
Kelly Pickler's mother had tickets to her daughter's concert here at Dorton Arena.
But once Eyewitness News told her that her daughter didn't want to see her, didn't want to talk to her, she changed her mind about coming.
She says she doesn't want to hurt Kelly [B] again.
Cynthia says she will leave Kelly alone.
[E] Leave her to live her new life.
But like Kelly, she too will wonder.
[N] In Raleigh, Shae Chrissen, ABC 11 Eyewitness News.
Two women grappling with a lot of pain.
I appreciate both of them talking.
Kelly was up for a CMA Award tonight, a Horizon Award, but she did not win that.
[Eb] Not win that.
Quite an honor to be nominated, certainly.
All right, a whole lot of chill in the air.
Weather wise.
Yeah,
North Carolina native Kelly Pickler is breaking her silence about her mother who
abandoned her as a baby and who now lives here in the Triangle.
Pickler wrote a hit song about being abandoned.
It's called I Wonder and she broke down while singing it tonight at the CMA Awards.
[Gb] Your little girl [Ab] is from Tennessee.
[Abm]
[N] Recently both mother and daughter were in Raleigh but there was no reunion, no reconciliation.
Just two women trying to deal with the past in raw emotional interviews with our Shay Chrisson.
You know this is the closest you're ever going to get to me because I'm done.
I'm done.
To understand that Kelly Pickler you have to know this Kelly Pickler.
[E] She went from small town Carolina girl to big time country star almost overnight and she did it despite a painful past.
Kelly had mixed emotions before this Reet State Fair performance in Raleigh knowing this is where her mother now lives.
The mother who left her when she was a baby.
The one she [Ab] sings about in her hit song I Wonder.
If [Db] you ever come back [Ebm] [Db] home to [Ab]
Carolina.
[Gb]
[Db] Do what you'd say to me.
This song has really, really not only helped me because writing it and performing it every night has been kind of like therapy [Ab] for me.
But I think it's really helped a lot of other people that might be going through similar [Bbm] circumstances.
I wonder if [Ab] you're out there [Eb] somewhere [F] thinking about me.
I lost my family.
Her mother does think about her, talks [Bb] about her too.
I did what was in the centers for her.
Miss Kelly.
Cynthia Malone used to be Cynthia Pickler.
Now she volunteers for Interact, the Wake County Agency for Domestic Violence Victims.
No one helped.
[C] She says by sharing her story of abuse and the difficult decision as a teenager to abandon Kelly, she hopes to help others avoid what happened to her.
The beatings came more frequently.
I knew I was going to lose my life if I didn't leave.
[N] And I didn't know how to leave.
[C] So I packed up one day and I left.
What did you do?
Off to where the grandparents.
Nobody knew that I was leaving.
Nobody knew what I was [Ab] going to do.
And she didn't know how that decision would affect her and Kelly, who she hasn't seen since she looked like [G] this age 11.
Now 21, Kelly [Gb] uses her story to raise money and awareness for an organization that helps grandparents raising grandkids.
When we asked about her mother's cause of choice, we opened up deep wounds.
OK, she's supposed to be speaking on domestic violence.
OK, a lot of it are a complete lie.
I'm not mad.
I'm not upset.
I'm just hurt because I'm not going to be able to do what I want to do.
She continues to make herself look like the victim.
And she just tells you, tell everyone.
I just wish that I don't know why you want anything to do with me now.
You never wanted anything to do with me in my whole life.
Ever.
But is that true?
Eyewitness News went to Albemarle, where the Picklers lived, and found records that Cynthia did fight for custody.
We also found divorce documents where Cynthia claimed Clyde Pickler was a drinker who also abused drugs and who beat her throughout their marriage.
Claims he denied.
But Clyde has been in and out of jail since the 80s for DWI and breaking into cars and is currently behind bars.
Earlier this year, he was convicted of assaulting his current wife.
But his only assault conviction related to Cynthia was for pointing a gun at one of her relatives in 1985.
Never for an attack against her.
There's so much that's just not out there.
And I'm sick of people looking at me and thinking that, oh, her poor mom, she should give her another chance.
Okay, if my dad or anyone was abusive to her, you're going to leave your kid there to be in the abuse as well?
It doesn't make sense.
There's so many puzzles to this story that have not been put in there.
We'd have been the [Em] same age.
[C] Cynthia sticks to her story.
I interviewed her in Victim's Memorial Gardens, a place she feels her name could have ended up.
Why not take any with you?
The two of you, three [E] together.
I tried one [D] time and he ran [C] my car off the road.
I ran just as hard as I could in my car to in front of the police department.
Now, mind you, I still had a bruised face.
The police officer seen him snatch Kelly away from me.
And she became 50-50 property.
So in order to get her back, I had to go back.
What do you say to Kelly now?
What I would say to anyone [Fm] [C] that is going [D] through that or been through [C] that, there is life out there.
[E] It helped if I could [N] go back into time with the tools that I had today.
Yes, I would [E] have done things I haven't been [N] able to do, but I can.
And I'm [Gbm] human.
I'm a sinner.
I make mistakes.
Mistakes that Kelly is far from ready to forgive.
If she wants to give me any peace at all, then she will stay away from me and not hurt me any more than what she has.
Just leave me alone.
To make sure she was left alone, Raleigh Police working Kelly's concert kept a picture of her mother in their [C] pockets
and kept an eye out for her in the stands in case she showed up and tried to contact Kelly.
Kelly Pickler's mother had tickets to her daughter's concert here at Dorton Arena.
But once Eyewitness News told her that her daughter didn't want to see her, didn't want to talk to her, she changed her mind about coming.
She says she doesn't want to hurt Kelly [B] again.
Cynthia says she will leave Kelly alone.
[E] Leave her to live her new life.
But like Kelly, she too will wonder.
[N] In Raleigh, Shae Chrissen, ABC 11 Eyewitness News.
Two women grappling with a lot of pain.
I appreciate both of them talking.
Kelly was up for a CMA Award tonight, a Horizon Award, but she did not win that.
[Eb] Not win that.
Quite an honor to be nominated, certainly.
All right, a whole lot of chill in the air.
Weather wise.
Yeah,
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[F] _ _ Now to an emotional [Ab] Eyewitness News exclusive.
North Carolina native Kelly Pickler is breaking her silence about her mother who
abandoned her as a baby and who now lives here in the Triangle.
Pickler wrote a hit song about being abandoned.
It's called I Wonder and she broke down while singing it tonight at the CMA Awards. _
_ _ [Gb] Your little girl [Ab] is from _ _ _ _ Tennessee. _ _
[Abm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ Recently both mother and daughter were in Raleigh but there was no reunion, no reconciliation.
Just two women trying to deal with the past in raw emotional interviews with our Shay Chrisson.
_ You know this is the closest you're ever going to get to me because I'm done.
I'm done.
_ To understand that Kelly Pickler you have to know this Kelly Pickler.
_ [E] She went from small town Carolina girl to big time country star almost overnight and she did it despite a painful past.
Kelly had mixed emotions before this Reet State Fair performance in Raleigh knowing this is where her mother now lives.
The mother who left her when she was a baby.
The one she [Ab] sings about in her hit song I Wonder.
If [Db] you ever come back [Ebm] _ [Db] home to _ [Ab] _
Carolina.
_ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _
_ [Db] Do what you'd say to me.
This song has really, _ really not only helped me because writing it and performing it every night has been kind of like therapy [Ab] for me.
But I think it's really helped a lot of other people that might be going through _ similar [Bbm] circumstances.
I wonder if [Ab] you're out there [Eb] somewhere [F] thinking about me.
I lost my family.
Her mother does think about her, talks [Bb] about her too.
I did what was in the centers for her.
Miss Kelly.
Cynthia Malone used to be Cynthia Pickler.
Now she volunteers for Interact, the Wake County Agency for Domestic Violence Victims.
No one helped.
[C] She says by sharing her story of abuse and the difficult decision as a teenager to abandon Kelly, she hopes to help others avoid what happened to her.
The beatings came more frequently. _ _
I knew I was going to lose my life if I didn't leave.
[N] And I didn't know how to leave.
[C] So I packed up one day and I left. _ _
What did you do?
Off to where the grandparents. _
Nobody knew that I was leaving.
_ Nobody knew what I was [Ab] going to do.
And she didn't know how that decision would affect her and Kelly, who she hasn't seen since she looked like [G] this age 11.
_ _ _ _ Now 21, Kelly [Gb] uses her story to raise money and awareness for an organization that helps grandparents raising grandkids.
When we asked about her mother's cause of choice, we opened up deep wounds.
OK, she's supposed to be speaking on domestic violence. _
_ OK, a lot of it are a complete lie.
I'm not mad.
I'm not upset.
I'm just hurt _ because I'm not going to be able to do what I want to do.
_ _ _ _ _ She continues to _ _ make herself look like the victim.
And she just tells you, tell everyone.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I just _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ wish _ _ _ _ _ _ _
that I don't know why you want anything to do with me now.
You never wanted anything to do with me in my whole life.
_ Ever.
But is that true?
Eyewitness News went to Albemarle, where the Picklers lived, and found records that Cynthia did fight for custody.
We also found divorce documents where Cynthia claimed Clyde Pickler was a drinker who also abused drugs and who beat her throughout their marriage.
Claims he denied.
But Clyde has been in and out of jail since the 80s for DWI and breaking into cars and is currently behind bars.
Earlier this year, he was convicted of assaulting his current wife.
But his only assault conviction related to Cynthia was for pointing a gun at one of her relatives in 1985.
Never for an attack against her.
There's so much that's just not out there.
And I'm sick of people looking at me and thinking that, oh, her poor mom, she should give her another chance.
_ Okay, if my dad or anyone was abusive to her, you're going to leave your kid there to be in the abuse as well?
It doesn't make sense.
There's so many puzzles to this story that have not been put in there.
We'd have been the [Em] same age.
[C] Cynthia sticks to her story.
I interviewed her in Victim's Memorial Gardens, a place she feels her name could have ended up.
Why not take any with you?
The two of you, three [E] together.
I tried one [D] time and he ran [C] my car off the road.
_ I _ _ ran just as hard as I could in my car to in front of the police department. _
Now, mind you, I still had a bruised face.
The police officer seen him snatch Kelly away from me.
_ _ And she became 50-50 property.
_ _ _ _ So in order to get her back, I had to go back.
What do you say to Kelly now?
_ What I would say to anyone _ [Fm] _ [C] that is going [D] through that or been through [C] that, there is life out there.
[E] It helped if I could [N] go back into time with the tools that I had today.
_ _ Yes, I would [E] have done things I haven't been [N] able to do, but I can.
_ And I'm [Gbm] human.
I'm a sinner.
I make mistakes.
Mistakes that Kelly is far from ready to forgive.
If she wants to give me any peace at all, then she will stay away from me and not hurt me any more than what she has.
Just leave me alone.
To make sure she was left alone, Raleigh Police working Kelly's concert kept a picture of her mother in their [C] pockets
and kept an eye out for her in the stands in case she showed up and tried to contact Kelly.
Kelly Pickler's mother had tickets to her daughter's concert here at Dorton Arena.
But once Eyewitness News told her that her daughter didn't want to see her, didn't want to talk to her, she changed her mind about coming.
She says she doesn't want to hurt Kelly [B] again.
Cynthia says she will leave Kelly alone. _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ Leave her to live her new life.
But like Kelly, she too will wonder.
_ [N] _ _ _ In Raleigh, Shae Chrissen, ABC 11 Eyewitness News.
Two women grappling with a lot of pain. _ _ _ _ _
I _ _ _ appreciate both of them talking.
_ Kelly was up for a CMA Award tonight, a Horizon Award, but she did not win that.
[Eb] Not win that.
Quite an honor to be nominated, certainly.
_ All right, a whole lot of chill in the air.
_ _ _ Weather wise.
Yeah,
North Carolina native Kelly Pickler is breaking her silence about her mother who
abandoned her as a baby and who now lives here in the Triangle.
Pickler wrote a hit song about being abandoned.
It's called I Wonder and she broke down while singing it tonight at the CMA Awards. _
_ _ [Gb] Your little girl [Ab] is from _ _ _ _ Tennessee. _ _
[Abm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ Recently both mother and daughter were in Raleigh but there was no reunion, no reconciliation.
Just two women trying to deal with the past in raw emotional interviews with our Shay Chrisson.
_ You know this is the closest you're ever going to get to me because I'm done.
I'm done.
_ To understand that Kelly Pickler you have to know this Kelly Pickler.
_ [E] She went from small town Carolina girl to big time country star almost overnight and she did it despite a painful past.
Kelly had mixed emotions before this Reet State Fair performance in Raleigh knowing this is where her mother now lives.
The mother who left her when she was a baby.
The one she [Ab] sings about in her hit song I Wonder.
If [Db] you ever come back [Ebm] _ [Db] home to _ [Ab] _
Carolina.
_ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _
_ [Db] Do what you'd say to me.
This song has really, _ really not only helped me because writing it and performing it every night has been kind of like therapy [Ab] for me.
But I think it's really helped a lot of other people that might be going through _ similar [Bbm] circumstances.
I wonder if [Ab] you're out there [Eb] somewhere [F] thinking about me.
I lost my family.
Her mother does think about her, talks [Bb] about her too.
I did what was in the centers for her.
Miss Kelly.
Cynthia Malone used to be Cynthia Pickler.
Now she volunteers for Interact, the Wake County Agency for Domestic Violence Victims.
No one helped.
[C] She says by sharing her story of abuse and the difficult decision as a teenager to abandon Kelly, she hopes to help others avoid what happened to her.
The beatings came more frequently. _ _
I knew I was going to lose my life if I didn't leave.
[N] And I didn't know how to leave.
[C] So I packed up one day and I left. _ _
What did you do?
Off to where the grandparents. _
Nobody knew that I was leaving.
_ Nobody knew what I was [Ab] going to do.
And she didn't know how that decision would affect her and Kelly, who she hasn't seen since she looked like [G] this age 11.
_ _ _ _ Now 21, Kelly [Gb] uses her story to raise money and awareness for an organization that helps grandparents raising grandkids.
When we asked about her mother's cause of choice, we opened up deep wounds.
OK, she's supposed to be speaking on domestic violence. _
_ OK, a lot of it are a complete lie.
I'm not mad.
I'm not upset.
I'm just hurt _ because I'm not going to be able to do what I want to do.
_ _ _ _ _ She continues to _ _ make herself look like the victim.
And she just tells you, tell everyone.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ I just _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ wish _ _ _ _ _ _ _
that I don't know why you want anything to do with me now.
You never wanted anything to do with me in my whole life.
_ Ever.
But is that true?
Eyewitness News went to Albemarle, where the Picklers lived, and found records that Cynthia did fight for custody.
We also found divorce documents where Cynthia claimed Clyde Pickler was a drinker who also abused drugs and who beat her throughout their marriage.
Claims he denied.
But Clyde has been in and out of jail since the 80s for DWI and breaking into cars and is currently behind bars.
Earlier this year, he was convicted of assaulting his current wife.
But his only assault conviction related to Cynthia was for pointing a gun at one of her relatives in 1985.
Never for an attack against her.
There's so much that's just not out there.
And I'm sick of people looking at me and thinking that, oh, her poor mom, she should give her another chance.
_ Okay, if my dad or anyone was abusive to her, you're going to leave your kid there to be in the abuse as well?
It doesn't make sense.
There's so many puzzles to this story that have not been put in there.
We'd have been the [Em] same age.
[C] Cynthia sticks to her story.
I interviewed her in Victim's Memorial Gardens, a place she feels her name could have ended up.
Why not take any with you?
The two of you, three [E] together.
I tried one [D] time and he ran [C] my car off the road.
_ I _ _ ran just as hard as I could in my car to in front of the police department. _
Now, mind you, I still had a bruised face.
The police officer seen him snatch Kelly away from me.
_ _ And she became 50-50 property.
_ _ _ _ So in order to get her back, I had to go back.
What do you say to Kelly now?
_ What I would say to anyone _ [Fm] _ [C] that is going [D] through that or been through [C] that, there is life out there.
[E] It helped if I could [N] go back into time with the tools that I had today.
_ _ Yes, I would [E] have done things I haven't been [N] able to do, but I can.
_ And I'm [Gbm] human.
I'm a sinner.
I make mistakes.
Mistakes that Kelly is far from ready to forgive.
If she wants to give me any peace at all, then she will stay away from me and not hurt me any more than what she has.
Just leave me alone.
To make sure she was left alone, Raleigh Police working Kelly's concert kept a picture of her mother in their [C] pockets
and kept an eye out for her in the stands in case she showed up and tried to contact Kelly.
Kelly Pickler's mother had tickets to her daughter's concert here at Dorton Arena.
But once Eyewitness News told her that her daughter didn't want to see her, didn't want to talk to her, she changed her mind about coming.
She says she doesn't want to hurt Kelly [B] again.
Cynthia says she will leave Kelly alone. _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ Leave her to live her new life.
But like Kelly, she too will wonder.
_ [N] _ _ _ In Raleigh, Shae Chrissen, ABC 11 Eyewitness News.
Two women grappling with a lot of pain. _ _ _ _ _
I _ _ _ appreciate both of them talking.
_ Kelly was up for a CMA Award tonight, a Horizon Award, but she did not win that.
[Eb] Not win that.
Quite an honor to be nominated, certainly.
_ All right, a whole lot of chill in the air.
_ _ _ Weather wise.
Yeah,