Robert Cain grew up without his father for seven years after his mother left an abusive relationship. When they reconnected, his father died shortly after. For decades the family said it was a brain aneurysm. In 2011, after his mother died, his brother Mike told him the truth: their father died of a heroin overdose.
Take me through pre prison. What was going on? My upbringing was not normal. My mom was in an abusive relationship with my dad, and when I was four years old, she decided to leave my father. Seven years went by without meeting my dad or knowing who my dad was. And somehow my dad found us, and he wanted to get to know us a little bit. So shortly after that, just started building a relationship with him, and he died. I didn't die well. We were told that he died of a brain aneurysm. Is that not true? I found out in 2011 after my mom passed away. My brother Mike, I brought up my dad dying of a brain aneurysm. And he said he didn't die of a brain aneurysm. He died of a heroin overdose.
So there was a lot of covering up. Yeah, we weren't told a lot. How do you think that affected you.
