On Thursday, Alicia Keys shared an intimate throwback to fans of a letter she had written to her absent father in 1994 when she was just 14 years old.
Keys was just 14 years old when she wrote the letter to her, at the time, estranged father Craig Cook. Reading this, Alicia proves that she’s always been gifted with her pen. The opening line of her letter reads, “It saddens me that most of my heart is bitter towards you. It’s only that little part that feels sad that’s not bitter.” The letter explains her frustrations with her father and his absence in her life while she was growing up.
She ended the letter passionately declaring, “All I want from you is to mind your business. I don’t want the phone calls, I don’t want the letters, I don’t want the fake acts you pull to try and make me think you care. I don’t want anything.”
The superstar, who has since repaired her relationship with Cook, explained in the caption that her father had kept the letter since she sent it to him in 1994 in a shoebox and shared it with her. “I’m glad he and I can look back at it now as a sign of how far we’ve come,” she wrote.
The R&B songstresses’ seventh studio album is slated to be released this month after being postponed twice due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.