Folk singer Jewel revealed the heart-wrenching twin tragedies in her family history — an abusive father and a greedy mom — in a candid new memoir.
“I’m not bitter and I’m not vindictive,” Jewel, 41, said of penning “Never Broken,” which coincides with her new album.
“For me, it’s about illustrating what a person could go through, and how you rise and how you heal.”
Much of that healing involved Jewel’s ex-momager, Nedra Carroll, whom she hasn’t spoken to in years and who reportedly bilked Jewel out of music money.
“I don’t think things were quite what I thought they were,” admitted Jewel in a recent interview. “It was a pretty heartbreaking realization.”
The “You Were Meant for Me” songwriter confided: “The biggest betrayal for me was really on a personal level.”
Their relationship was so painful — and so fraught with legal land mines — that parts of “Never Broken” were toned down before publication.
Jewel still dropped truth bombs.
“I can’t tell you about the pain, and how my heart to this day screams to have a mom in my life,” she wrote. “Every day I miss having a mom. But I don’t miss Nedra.”
Jewel’s book also discusses how dad Atz Kilcher became alcoholic and abusive, and led to her moving out at 15.
Though she eventually made peace with Atz — he gave her permission to write about him — she and Nedra never mended fences.
“I hope that, if anyone takes anything away from my book, it’s that nothing’s black and white,” she said.
