Gloria Estefan says she was molested at music school as a child

NEW YORK (AP) — Gloria Estefan has revealed that, astatine the property of 9, she was sexually abused by idiosyncratic her parent trusted.

The Cuban-American superstar spoke for the archetypal clip publically astir the maltreatment and its effects connected her during an occurrence of the Facebook Watch amusement “Red Table Talk: The Estefans'' connected Thursday.

She said, astatine 1 point, she confronted her abuser.

“I told him, ‘This cannot happen, you cannot bash this.’ He goes, ‘Your father’s successful Vietnam, your mother’s unsocial and I volition termination her if you archer her,'” Estafan said, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Estefan spoke astir the symptom she experienced and however aft telling her parent astir the abuse. She said constabulary discouraged her from pressing charges.

"They told my parent not to property charges due to the fact that they said I was going to spell done worse trauma having to get connected a stand,” Estefan said.

Years later, Estafan said her abuser publically criticized her deed song, "Conga." At that point, she said she was acceptable to "blow the lid disconnected everything" but she decided against it due to the fact that she didn't privation him to get immoderate recognition.

She criticized him for "the manipulation and control" portion acknowledging that's what predators are known to do.