Donisha | Betrayal Weekly

[instrumental music] Growing up, Deneshia Quiller was used to chaos.

She was one of seven kids.

I have a brother, a sister, a half-brother, and then my mom adopted three of her nieces.

They lived in a two-bedroom house in Long Beach, California.

Eight people.

It was very chaotic, a lot of fighting for attention.

Deneshia had a good relationship with her father, but he was in and out of the house when she was growing up.

As the primary caregiver, her mom held everything together.

With seven kids, it was an exhausting job.

She was supermom.

She was stressed out, and it wasn't easy.

When the house got too loud, Deneshia escaped into her bedroom and watched her favorite TV shows.

She practically had the TV Guide memorized.

I'm an '80s kid, so it was Full House and Perfect Strangers.

Deneshia's mom ran a tight ship, especially when it came to dating.

My mom was anti-boys, anti-dating.

She would tell me constantly that you don't trust men, you don't rely on men.

On Sundays, Deneshia's family attended church.

They were Pentecostal, and that came with its own expectations.

There was so many rules.

Sex was on the top of the list.

If you did that, you were just done for.

Deneshia followed all of the rules very carefully.

There were certain movies she couldn't watch, certain clothes she wasn't allowed to wear, so she had to find creative ways to express herself.

I got extensions, and they were always rainbow colored, and that was exciting.