James Brown’s Daughters Detail Why They Chose To Forgive Their Father For Abusing Their Mother [Video]

James Brown‘s daughters clarify the explanations behind their forgiveness after witnessing their mom being bodily assaulted by him.

Within the upcoming version of PEOPLE journal, Deanna Brown Thomas and Yamma Brown, candidly share their journey in direction of forgiving their father regardless of witnessing him mistreat their mom, Deidre Jenkins, throughout their childhood.

“When you see a family member being hurt, you’re not feeling the best about the person that’s hurting them,” Yamma mentioned. “I was flat-out upset, mad with my dad at that moment. I still go back to that place every now and then, not to belittle my dad, but flashing back over my own life and the domestic violence situation in my life, thinking how much of that shaped me.”

Moreover, throughout a four-part docuseries chronicling Brown’s life and profession, which debuted on Monday and Tuesday on A&E, Yamma addressed the ultimate time she witnessed her father hanging her mom—and the way she intervened at simply 6 years outdated to diffuse the altercation.

“I talk about it in the sense that it happened. It is an unfortunate time in anybody’s situation, anybody’s life. If they’ve ever had to go through domestic violence, they know what that’s like. And it shows that he was human because he was flawed, but it also is a time to show grace,” she mentioned.

Regardless of his “intense” demeanor, Deanna reassured that her father by no means directed his anger in direction of his daughters.

“He never had any type of rage towards us because we were his children. That was a situation between a husband and a wife. There’s different type of love, different type of circumstances,” Deanna added.

James and Jenkins filed for divorce in 1981. Nevertheless, in his third marriage to Adrienne Rodriguez, he confronted a number of arrests for assaulting her.