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July 26 -- She was the youngest artist to have a No. 1 record. She was a teenage Grammy winner basking in glamor, beauty and newfound fame. Just as pop star Monica stood at the brink of superstardom, a tragedy took her away from the spotlight.

"I could go through gory details that would spin heads for days.

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That's not my goal. My goal is to show me after the storm," Monica said.

As a child, Monica joyfully embraced music, but when she was 6 years old, her world was shattered by her parents' divorce. She found herself pulled between two dramatically different worlds: that of her churchgoing mother and her street-smart father.

"It's kind of like when I say, I'm a mixture of two worlds, that's just what I became.

When my parents split, I became two separate people," she said.

But those two people would eventually collide … Just 12 years old when she was discovered in a talent show, Monica's