I Was 15 & Selling My Body After Mom Kicked Me Out! | KARAMO

Samaria, tell me about your mother kicking you out.

Okay, when she kicked me out a few weeks, it was just, I woke up that morning, I was very tired because I always take care of my 2-year-old nephew. Like I'm always taking care of him, doing everything for him when that's her responsibility.

Okay.

Which I just had a deceased niece that passed, so she's real up and overprotective about him. So I woke up that morning and she walked in there, she was like, "Well, get up and take your nephew to school." But she's not doing nothing. So I'm like, "Why you couldn't do it?" She didn't even say much. She just started arguing with me, yelling, then she called the police. So after she called the police, I'm like, why would you call them? Usually when she called them, she tell them I'm not supposed to be there. So I got real scared.

You said usually when she calls them. So this is a reoccurring?

She called them all the time.

On you?

So when she called them this time, I knew she was gonna try to, oh, she not supposed to be here, send her there, send her here. But this time I had been and got put on probation. So I was real scared about her calling them. So when she called them, I just instantly started recording them because you know when you wanna call the police, I'm gonna pull out my phone. I got my proof. I know what I done. I know I ain't did nothing wrong. So I recorded and they basically just asked me a few questions about do I live there? Do I got stuff in there? And I did. So I told them what happened.

So you sent my producers the video that you said you took that day. Can I see it?

All she did was kick me out this morning because I didn't wanna wake up and feed my nephew. And I got the messages. I've been living here for months. I called y'all yesterday and told y'all these things that she keep doing.

Yeah, that stops today. Okay, but let me talk to the police officers right quick and unrecord me.

No, now I don't appreciate you lying, so I'm not going to unrecord.

I don't supposed to be on social media, that's why.

I'm not going to post it. I'm just keeping it for my record if I get in trouble.

Ma'am, y'all come in.

Okay. So where did you end up staying when you left?

Okay, I was staying in my boyfriend's car. Oh yeah, that's my stuff. 'Cause she didn't want me home.

And let me back up. You're 18, you just turned 18, right?

I just turned 18 a few months ago.

Okay, when a lot of this was happening, you were 17?

Oh no, this just happened.

Okay.

All this just happened like right before I came on the show.

Right before the show. But you said there was a, your police being called and all this stuff, so.

Yeah, like she usually called them a lot, but the only reason she started calling them was 'cause they put me on probation. After they put me on probation, she just called them every time.

But were you on probation What are you on probation for?

Okay, my mom, she be putting me out. Around the time that I was 17, when she first put me out, I had to go sleep with a man for somewhere to go. Okay, that man, he slept with me that time and he didn't give me anywhere to go. He put me right back outside after we slept together. That made me real uncomfortable 'cause I slept with you to have somewhere to go and now I still don't have anywhere to go. So I broke his windows. But it was only because I needed this. You didn't give it to me, I gave you what you wanted. And basically after that, You know, I'm sorry. I hear you, baby. I basically, you know.

You don't gotta tell me more of the story. I understand, I understand.

Had to find, had somewhere to go. And they had, like me and him got into it. He fought me.

Did your mom know about that? Why you're on probation? Did she know that's the reason?

Not really. She just know that when it came time for court and stuff, I asked her for help. I told her I didn't break the window 'cause I didn't want my mama to go against me. She always would go against me no matter what the situation is.

And where are you staying right now?

Okay, I'm like basically couch hopping. Like I stay here, I stay there, I stay with my cousins sometimes, but I really barely have anywhere to go because it's like every family member that I stay with, somebody who's immediate related to me, like she'll call them, oh Samaria like this, she like that, she'll do this to you, she'll do that to you. When half of the time I probably wouldn't do none of that shit to them. She just wanna be messy, don't want me to have nowhere to go. And I don't appreciate that fact because I be feeling like if I'm put out, I'm your daughter, you love me. Why you don't care about the fact that I don't have nowhere to go? Why you don't care about what may happen to me while nobody, you know?

When did the issues start with your, issues with your family start?

It started around the time when I was 15. When I was 15, all this started happening. I had to make friends with my neighbor. I turned my neighbor from the house that we was living in, I turned my neighbor to my best friend. Like I started living with her, staying with her 'cause my mama was constantly putting me out. I was supposed to be going to school, but due to the things that I was doing at my neighbor's house, I never went to school. I probably barely had clothes. I didn't wanna go in no dirty clothes. I didn't wanna go with a fucking headspace 'cause I'm sleeping with men at night. You know what I'm saying? I don't want, like, they demons on me at school, you know, different stuff going on. But basically—

So you started sleeping with those men at 15?

Yeah.

And my producer told me that your mom did know when you were 15 that you were sleeping with men to get by.

Yeah, she knew that.

She did know that, okay.

She knew.

So the only one she didn't know about was the one when you were 17.

Yeah, she didn't know about that one 'cause by that time she had casted me away. She didn't really care.

What was her response?

She didn't have no response. I guess it's 'cause she do it too. She don't, you know what I mean?

Has your mom kicked you out before?

Yeah, she kicked me out all the time.

How many times would you say since you were 15 your mother kicked you out?

I didn't stay with my mom much. Like, I mean, I can't even say how it is living in the household with her. I can say that every time I have lived in the household with her, it wasn't comfortable 'cause it was always the next in there with me. Like, you know what I'm saying? I never had my own space. I never had my own room. Never had my own, you know what I'm saying?

Got it, I understand. I hear you. It looks like I'm getting a ping from your mom's sister, your Aunt Shalonda. Do you have an Aunt Shalonda?

Mm-hmm.

Let me hear what she's saying.

Karamo, I'm telling you, you got your hands full with Samaria. She is off the chain. Samaria smokes weed, she sells her body on social media, she lives from pillar to post, she goes to people's houses and try to stay. And my sister, she goes over there, she takes food for her to eat. She go to her rescue every time. Samaria is so disrespectful. She puts our business out on Facebook, whether it's the truth or a lie. Samaria has no respect for her family. Our father passed away March 24th. I did not want her at the funeral at all. Then she had the nerve to take a picture while he was laying in his casket, posted him all on social media, and started this whole chaos on Facebook. I told my sister it couldn't be me. Daughter or not, I'm not gonna let a child disrespect me the way that Samaria disrespects her mom, and I don't approve of it.

Okay, for one, she, she needs to shut the fuck up. That's not how it is. Okay, so it's like, for one, I already, like she said about my granddad, that's why I really don't fuck with my family. When my granddad died, they didn't call me down to tell me that he had passed. None of that. I had to find out from my brother. I missed his body viewing because y'all didn't call me. Y'all didn't tell me nothing about it. And Still to this day, I didn't get to view his body till like the funeral day. So I don't know how she gonna say I took pictures.

There have been some text exchange between you and that same aunt. I'm up. Y'all got something to eat like for me to take with me like noodles or anything, but I'm gonna need a bowl. This is you texting your aunt?

Yeah, 'cause I used to go, I used to work and I needed that for work.

You're not allowed back in my house at all. Not for a package delivery or to see my kids or if you're hungry. Okay, and how long ago was this?

This was like the other month ago. This was when my granddad died, March 24th.

Yes, March 24th. So, okay, I get your point of view. But I wanna ask you this, what do you want from your mom today?

I want for her to understand me. I want for her to talk to me better. The way she's talked to me like bitch, hoe, I don't want her doing all that 'cause I'm a bitch and hoe you right back. Like I'm gonna say the same shit to you. So it's gonna forever be conflict. We gotta learn to fix the problem. And another thing, like she be calling me ugly. I don't think she know that that make me feel some type of way. Like I be feeling like that shit true. I feel like she don't love me, but that's why we here.

Okay, I get that.

It's all about making it better. Okay.

Well, let's see what Shanta has to say about this situation. So everyone, please welcome Shanta to the show.

Hey, Karamo.

Hi, nice to meet you. So I gotta ask you, how do you feel about everything that was just said?

So Samaria, what we're not gonna do is sit here for the Karamo Show and tell lies.

What lies though?

So that we can get the proper help for you. The first thing is you're very disrespectful.

Yes, I am.

You don't know how to talk to me as a child. I'm your mother. You're not my mother. You're at the age of 18. That makes you partways grown. Not all the way grown. As long as you in my house, there are rules to follow in my house.

But I barely be in the fucking house.

As long as you're in my house.

I barely be in the house.

There are rules in my house.

You don't let me in there.

When you're there. Yes, I put you out. And it's a reason for me putting you out. You use profanity towards me. You don't know how to talk to me. Not only that, you have destructive—

And don't you talk to me on a regular though?

You have destructive—

On a regular, not just when we're arguing, when we're going through it, on a regular basis.

You have manic behaviors to where you destroy property. I do not have to tolerate that from you.

Do I have manic behaviors because you—

Baby, I'm old school raised. You understand me?

Old school.

I could stand up now. If my mama look at me, she could line me up with her eyes and me and my sister get in line. You do not do that. You go word for word with me.

Because you—

And you weren't raised like that.

It's the way you talk though.

You go word for word.

Like how you talking right now? You don't talk like that at home. When I get in trouble—

I'm not gonna use any profanity on this show, but Karamo, I do.

Yeah, like bitch, hoe, fuck.

Me as a character, if I call her bitches, What you mean?

Hoes.

I'm just being honest with you. That's what I do in the heat of the moment. But understand, it's only after she done did it first. You get what I'm saying?

So were you aware that your daughter was selling her body at 15?

Yes.

Okay.

2023.

Okay.

Yeah.

The only reason I say that is because I know she's an adult now, but I wanna make sure anybody else at home that's aware, because this is my background, this is in the field I worked in, you know that if any social service agency would've found that out, you would have been arrested immediately for child neglect and child abuse. I want you to know that.

That's point blank.

Yes. Point blank.

So at the age of 17, since we speaking on that, I did have a case open against me.

When she was on the streets, were you able to ever find her like those times?

Yes, it been numerous of times Samaria have called me. She told me she was hungry, she needed to wash her clothes. When she asks me for things, if I have it, I give it.

And you barely have it.

Mom, I wanna ask you something. What do you want to happen today?

I want her to learn to respect. It ain't like I'm making up a story behind her. Everybody goes through the same thing.

She's admitted that she's been disrespectful. She's admitted that she's done these things. She says she's done these things. What's making you emotional right now?

Because it's like, I don't like seeing my family cry. Everybody know I love the shit outta them. I wouldn't ever do nothing to like, Make them upset. I don't try to make them upset. Shit that I go through that they don't listen to, they don't care about. And that's what make me upset and that's what make me rebel. Maybe if you cared, maybe if you asked, maybe if you, what you call it, if you even tried to effort, like effort, effort, like you don't put in no effort, no supporting me, none of that. And then you sitting up here on the show wanna cry, cry about respect for what?

So do you want a relationship with your daughter?

I do want a relationship with her, yes.

You do?

I do.

You do, and you don't believe that?

I mean, it's hard to believe.

Your daughter says something, and this is real. She said, "I want you to understand what I've been through, what I'm going through." Do you think that you ever take the time to really to understand what she's been through?

I have took the time out to understand her and what she goes through. Yeah. But to be honest with you, that's some fairytale stuff.

Well, the things that we know for sure, and I'm just gonna start here, and this is why I started with this. A young woman at 15, whether she thinks she's making a grown decision or not, doesn't understand her body.

Correct.

And doesn't understand the men who take advantage of her young mind. Correct. And regardless of the attitude or anything else, your little baby has had those situations and those situations are traumatic.

They are.

And if you've ever had anything traumatic, I know your father just passed, so you know what it is. You get, as much as you're grieving, you get angry at times, you get frustrated at times. And I just want you to put your place in a little girl's mind that is at 15. And yes, she probably had an attitude before, so I'm not trying to pretend like I didn't think she had an attitude before. But 15, she didn't understand that. And as much as she's nodding her head, Tell your mama what you've been through.

Yeah, like, and it ain't even just like, it's like I done been through a lot of stuff. Like it's a lot of stuff you didn't tell me that I was supposed to know. You ain't never came to me and sat me down and told me how I was supposed to be as a woman or anything like that. So it's a lot of shit that men done seen me do they wasn't even supposed to see me do.

So I never sat down and talked to you? The way you promote your body on social media?

No, yeah, no.

All of that, we had the conversations before then. But I'm saying the different little things that I done talked to you about, you gonna sit here and act like I never tried to come to you and talk to you You don't want you come to me and say what you're saying now, I shouldn't be doing it.

That's not talking to me, understanding me. That's telling me what I shouldn't be doing.

Okay, gotcha.

That's, that's being, that's the authority.

That's what you're doing. So you don't take no responsibility for nothing?

Yes, I take responsibility. It's all my fault. I did it.

Yeah, I have no control over it.

I'm gonna tell you something. It's not your fault. You were a child that was trying to figure out how to survive in a world that no one I prepared you for. And I'm not giving you, I'm not taking you away. This is not your fault and it also does not have to be your story.

You understand? I can tell you anytime.

Your daughter's reaching out to the show for help and I really do appreciate you being vulnerable.

I just hope whatever we say on this stage, the resolution we taking home with us and we live that same way day by day listening to each other and respecting each other So for me to encourage her to commit to not using profanity, you have to commit one thing, is that you'll allow the conversations to only be between y'all.

Which means your sister, your mama, anybody else can't call and do what I heard, where they call her out her name, say anything. Because the thing is, is that a child against several adults, and even though y'all are just all saying what y'all gotta say, I've been in the family, I've seen it. But then it's like, me against the world. So can you commit to having her back, to saying to everybody else, I'm not gonna let them talk about you? Can you tell 'em?

I'm gonna commit to this. I can't say I'm gonna not have them talk about you because I can't control anyone's action. So I'll be lying to you if I sit here and say that.

Oh no, you wouldn't.

But I would not let them talk about you or to you around me.

So that's good. That's the perfect commitment. So you actually did what I wanted. Because the thing is that, yeah, we know, we all adults, we all got our own mouth. But when you know they around, you say, "No, not around my daughter." Correct. And that way, if your mother's protecting you from everybody else, can you not, when you get triggered, 'cause I know you're gonna be triggered, can you say, "You know what, I'm gonna show you how smart I am. I ain't gonna cuss at you." As long as she's keeping her commitment and protecting you. Can you do that?

Yeah, as long as you keeping your commitment. And protecting me, I'm gonna respect you. I won't be using profanity. I'll find every word in the dictionary before I use a cuss word.

Look at that. All right. Look at that. Hopefully this helped a little bit. One step to help y'all going forward. That's right. All right, good luck to y'all, all right?

Thank you. Mm-hmm.