in my opinion. I mean, especially in this day and age, it was poor judgment to bring some mentally-unbalanced wack job off the street into the family and give her such close access to Selena and their finances, etc. Saldivar should've been kicked to the curb -- or never hired at all-- way before her obsession with Selena became so toxic.
shareI have to agree on that. It would have been better if they had let a responsible, well-trusted family member manage the fan club rather than some random stranger. Yolanda had also approached Shelly Lares and her family to start a fan club, but they turned her down.
You dodge a question like a character dodges a punch on Mortal Kombat.-IceJJFish
Yeah, I agree with you. I believe that since they were a self-made music empire, Selena (from stories I've read) ignored people that were warning her of this crazy lady and the signs that ultimately lead to her death. It's truly sad.
shareEspecially Selena.
shareSelena was apparently, very sheltered and overprotected throughout her life, so she was consequently, severely naïve and lacked street smarts. Selena was you could argue, one of those genuinely kind-hearted "I can see the best in anybody!" type of people. Yolanda pretty much exploited that aspect of Selena's personality to literally deadly results I'm afraid.
shareSelena actually knew that Yolanda had a gun (the same gun that she would use to shoot Selena), when she claimed while in a car with her that she used it for protection. Yolanda was clearly a pathological liar and Selena still kept in contact with her after that fact. It wasn't until Yolanda made up that false rape accusation that Selena finally realized that she need to get the hell away from this crazy woman. But still, I wish that Selena had not confronted Yolanda by herself, despite presumably knowing that she could be armed. And apparently, Selena kept her dad, Abraham in the dark in all of this.
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