Gloria Estefan Opens Up About Her Daughter Coming Out
(CNN) -- Parenting can be hard, even for musical legends.Singer Gloria Estefan, in a new episode of the HBO Max and CNN series, "Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?", opened up to Wallace about being reluctant to let her daughter, Emily, come out to her grandmother before she died. (CNN and HBO Max share parent company Warner Bros.
Discovery.)In 2020, Estefan and Emily spoke about the conflict on "Red Table Talk: The Estefans." At the time, Estefan explained her reasoning, noting that she wasn't ashamed, but had cautioned Emily about her approach out of concern for her mother's health.
She has since apologized to Emily."I told her just do it slowly," she told Wallace. "Don't just sit her down and say, boom. Give her a minute to process."Estefan shared additional details about her decision to address what happened publicly."In the Latin community, a lot of these subjects aren't touched, they're taboo.
People see, but they don't want to talk about it, they don't want to see it," Estefan said. "And the whole point of us doing those 20 episodes was, I have all these people that have loved me through the years and supported me.
