Why did Jewel leave home so young?

Why did Jewel leave home so young?

“And I saw it never worked and made a promise to myself to learn to handle the pain as it came.” After moving out of an abusive household at 15, Jewel was homeless by age 18, hitchhiking across the country and learning to play the guitar so she could street sing along the way, learning to shoplift as a way to handle …

Did Jewel leave home at a young age?

Before becoming a Grammy-nominated artist, Jewel grew up so poor in Alaska that she had nowhere to live and resorted to shoplifting. “I was a homeless kid who was stealing,” Jewel said this week at the SALT Conference in Las Vegas.

What happened to Jewel in her childhood?

After her parents split up when she was a child, Jewel writes, her father, Atz Kilcher, was abusive to her and her two brothers. She began living on her own at 15, earned a scholarship to Michigan’s Interlochen Center for the Arts at 16, then graduated two years later.

Are Jewel and Ty still friends?

Jewel and Ty Murray Remain Friends Amid Divorce, He Says.