Keke Palmer Says She Was 'Traumatized' by a Former Manager Who Said Her Mom Would 'Die' If She Didn't Lose Weight

Keke Palmer had an interaction with her manager that left her scarred.

In a recent interview with The Cut, the Emmy winner, 31, revealed that her former manager once criticized her mother’s health.

Palmer, who was 12 at the time, recalled being told her mother would die if she didn’t lose weight.

“It really, really traumatized and stressed me out,” she said. “I thought he was going to die, thinking about things like the medical bills. It was too much.”

Actress Keke Palmer arrives at the “This Christmas” World Premiere at the Cinerama Dome on November 12, 2007 in Hollywood, California.

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It was just one of many difficult experiences for Palmer, who stars in the upcoming film One of those days, had an actor as a child.

She also recalled feeling the pressure to land new acting roles because she was financially supporting her family.

“I hated my parents for a long time,” she told the paper. “There was so much pressure to stand tall for my community, for my parents, for my brothers and sisters, for their victims. They didn’t say that, but that was the reality.”

The actress was 10 years old when she made her screen debut in 2004. Barber shop 2: Back in business. That year, she continued to act in episodes of television shows A cold case and Strong medicineas well as a television movie Wool cap – which earned her a Screen Actors Guild nomination for outstanding acting performance.

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Keke Palmer visits SiriusXM Studios on November 20, 2024 in New York City.

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Palmer later became a television regular, starring in a Disney Channel Original Movie Jump in! and a starring role in a Nickelodeon sitcom True Jackson, Vice President.

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Speaking exclusively to PEOPLE in an October 2024 interview ahead of the release of his memoir Master for Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrativeshe recalled being in an inappropriate relationship on the set of the Nickelodeon series.

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“I was 15, he was 20,” Palmer said of the unidentified person. “I was trying to balance between being very young, but also feeling quite mature. If I thought it was inappropriate, I wouldn’t have done it.”

“Obviously I shouldn’t have been dating a 20-year-old at 15,” she added, “but in my mind I was like, ‘I got a full-time job… I can’t be understood by anyone but a grown man.’ But he I knew there were a lot of things I had no goddamn way of understanding at 15.”

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