Nicki Minaj was scared of unlocked doors

Nicki Minaj is opening up! The singer has revealed how she developed a paranoia about “unlocked doors” when she was a child after witnessing her allegedly abusive father drag her mother from the seat of a car.

“My mother left him many different times and came back. He would beg, cry, stalk us… One time, he pulled my mother out of a car and dragged her for two blocks,” she said.
 
“After that I had a phobia about unlocked doors. Anywhere my mother and I were, I made sure the door was locked, because that was my only way to protect her.”
 
Minaj has previously revealed how she was terrified she would go to hell as a child.
 
The Your Love rapper — who is well known for her outrageous dress sense — was taught pre-marital sex was bad as a youngster and was concerned after she had her first sexual encounter she would end up going to hell.
 
“When I was younger, I felt like I had been taught that pre-marital sex was bad, and so I always felt like if I had pre-marital sex I would go to hell,” she said. “So when I did, I really felt like, erm…
 
“I suppressed that a lot. So I really went through years of trying to make myself feel comfortable. Like, ‘OK, I’m not going to hell.’
 
“But it was scary at that time I was younger, and you know that’s all I’d been taught. So I spent a lot of time beating myself up.”