![]() At times, she says she dissociates in order to cope. She says she has often vomited and been rendered immobile from interactions with her father. “If I talk about my experiences, my teeth chatter and I get cold and sweaty even if I hear his name,” the 31-year-old says. Years later, she says, she still has physical responses to those memories. Jackie does not allege any physical abuse by her father, but when she describes her father’s alleged emotional and mental abuse, she and her mother both describe fear for their own safety and “survival” in the house, language that is common to survivors of any type of abuse. She says working on the album, released last month via Blue Élan Records, was a step in the process to further open up about the abuse she says she has suffered. While McLean has previously talked about the alleged mental abuse, she musically addresses what she calls “psychological warfare” stemming from her father for the first time on her new album, Another Life. She says she was terrified of her father, musician Don McLean, who she claims mentally and emotionally abused her. But inside, McLean claims to Rolling Stone, the imposing fortress holds painful secrets of abuse that have festered for decades. ![]() From the outside, the idyllic setting may appear to be an enchanting, peaceful locale. A nearly mile-long winding driveway separates the abode from a road that leads to the small coastal town of Camden, Maine, which it overlooks. The childhood home of Jackie McLean, frontwoman for indie rock duo Roan Yellowthorn, is nestled on a hilltop surrounded by woods.
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