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Rachel Crow, a 13-year-old contestant on Fox's 'The X Factor,' has been wowing judges with her singing talent, but now details about her troubled childhood have surfaced.

According to E! News, Rachel's birth mother used cocaine while she was pregnant with her. After she was born, Rachel lived in a crack house before being placed in foster care. The New York Post first reported the story.

"She was born a crack baby and actually lived in a crack house and suffered a lot of abuse," Rachel's adoptive mother, Barbara Crow, told the Post. "But she is totally unaffected by it. She never looks at [her past] in a sad way. She looks at it as that is what made her the person she is."

 

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The X Factor USA contestant Rachel Crow has shared details of her tough childhood, telling fans that she hopes to inspire others to follow their own dreams no matter what has happened in their lives. In an interview with the New York Post, the singer's adoptive mother Barbara Crow revealed that the 13-year-old was "born a crack baby" and "suffered a lot of abuse" as a young child. Rachel was placed with Barbara and her husband Kelly as a foster child through Social Services when she was six months old and adopted by the couple one year later. Barbara told the newspaper: "[Rachel] is totally unaffected by it. She never looks at [her past] in a sad way. She looks at it as that is what made her the person she is." The former hospital counsellor went on to say that she and Kelly do not know the identity of Rachel's birth parents,...

X Factor star Rachel Crow has more of an emotional backstory than show producers have revealed. The birth mother of the 13-year-old fan favorite used cocaine while she was pregnant, and Rachel lived in a crack house when she was very young, a show producer confirms to E! News. The singing sensation "suffered a lot of abuse" before social services placed her in foster care, her adoptive mom, Barbara Crow, reportedly told the New York Post. So what's Rachel saying about her childhood? The singer has no interest in meeting her birth parents, she says, because she considers the couple who adopted her to be her real parents. "I have two amazing parents already," she said....

Rachel's adoptive parents talk about the hard road that came before the too-cute star hit it big! Rachel Crow has taken the world by storm as the pint-sized front-runner on The X Factor, but the parents that adopted her from a terrifying life of drugs and violence say she's lucky to be alive! Rachel, 13, was taken from a toxic environment early in life, her adoptive mother Barbara Crow tells the New York Post. “[Rachel] was born a crack baby and actually lived in a crack house and suffered a lot of abuse,” she says. “But she is totally unaffected by it. She never looks at [her past] in a sad way. She looks at it as that is what made her the person she is.” Rachel herself says she has no interest in trying to discover the identity of her birth parents, who were forced to give her up for adoption when she was six months old.