Jake Zyrus made a huge revelation against his uncle in his book I Am Jake.
In his book, Jake revealed that his uncle started to take advantage of him when he was six years old and claimed that the incident was repeated several times.
“I was playing in the living room while he drew. He looked up from the sketches he was making and called me over. “Come here. I’ll draw you,” he said.
“Even at that age, my instincs told me something bad was going to happen. But I had no choice but to follow him. As he drew me, my mind quickly shifted to denial. My uncle then asked me to come with him to his room. We were going to sleep, he told me. Even if I had said no, I was so small and helpless. All he had to do was pick me up.
“Of course we didn’t sleep. He lay behind me, spooned me, and started touching me all over,” he stated.
The incident reached its peak when his uncle attempted to enter him.
“The only reason he didn’t succeed was because it was physically impossible. I was a tiny six-year-old girl,” he said.
Jake said that he told his mother about the incident fifteen years later, but the latter didn’t believe him.
“She called my uncle up and asked if my accusations were true. Of course he denied it, so Mommy got mad at me instead. She told me I had a lot of nerve to be making up stories about the old man,” he said.
As of writing, Raquel has yet to give her direct response to Jake’s book.