Toni Braxton writes in memoir 'Unbreak My Heart' her son's autism diagnosis is 'God's payback' for previous abortion

Toni Braxton got candid in her new memoir Unbreak My Heart, revealing she often wonders if she’s being punished for having an abortion earlier in life by her son having autism.

She revealed she got an abortion over a decade ago after finding out she was pregnant while taking the prescription acne treatment Accutane. Considering there are severe side effects for babies if the mother is taking Accutane, she terminated the pregnancy but wrote she would have done it even if she wasn’t on the heavy duty medication.

Braxton admitted to feeling immense guilt for weeks after the abortion, having grown up in an extremely religious household. When her youngest son was diagnosed, she wrote “Is God punishing me for that abortion?” noting later it was “God’s payback to give my son autism.”

Fox News reports she even had thoughts that her Lupus diagnosis and parents’ bad divorce were punishments as well.

The singer also wrote in the memoir that vaccines could have something to do with her son Diesel’s autism, writing “Maybe it’s just a coincidence that after my son’s first MMR vaccine, I began to notice changes in him,” Daily News reports.

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