Moving To America, Astrid Reveals Kuya's Love Begins To Recover From Inner Wounds Due To Bullying

JAKARTA Astrid Kuya shared a shocking story about the experience of her daughter, Cinta Kuya, who has been a victim of bullying since childhood.

"In the past, there were some who were excited, he was in junior high school, war on K-Pop tickets, he got it, but there were some who couldn't continue to be threatened immediately, he said, 'if he leaves the venue, what will we do later', there were threats there. There, his father began to be afraid. Fear because there was a threat itself, it was finally reported," said Astrid.

The incident became a point of concern for his family, especially his father, Uya Kuya. However, according to Astrid, it was not the only pressure experienced by Cinta. He revealed that since childhood Cinta had faced unpleasant treatment from some of his friends.

"The child himself honestly at that time he had told me about the problem he was bullied when he was little and I also just found out that all this time at school he had several times his friend's treatment who might be jealous, if Cinta was young, she could get permission, she had to shoot, what should I do, something special, now maybe there are some friends who don't like it, maybe they're said or what," Astrid said.

Astrid added that many of these stories were only revealed when they began to discuss more often when Cinta was an adult.

"That too I just found out after he we liked to talk, deep talk. (Ear) 19, 20 years. Deep talk, 'Yes, this one', well, the deep talk is fun. Until finally I found out that maybe this child might get hurt from childhood so he often gets hurt, gets hurt in the sense of what people say as an artist, as a child artist," he explained.

Astrid felt a positive change after Cinta moved to America. He began to be surrounded by a more supportive and emotionally healthy environment.

"But I saw the change after he moved to America, started making friends with friends who might be open-minded, with his girlfriend he was encouraging, 'that's all this', but sometimes it's like this problem, his hair problem, his skin color problem, actually he didn't want to reply, but he wanted to make things happen," explained Astrid.

As a student majoring in psychology, Cinta now better understands the importance of empathy and social awareness of the impact of words.

"Right now he's in school, he's a psychology major, they need to understand, they have to understand that their words hurt them, hurt them. Even though people on social media just think like this, 'You don't know me, you don't know who I am, I just say what's bad, what's bad about you, you don't know me'," he said.

"Well, it turns out to hurt, and he wants to make that person aware," Astrid concluded.