Lita Ford says that she was recently able to see her sons for the first time in nearly 10 years.
Ford hadn’t been in touch with her kids since shortly after her divorce in 2011, when she was allegedly denied contact with both of her sons.
Her husband of 17 years, NITRO singer Jim Gillette, retained custody of James, who is now 21, and Rocco, who is 17. She has alleged that he had brainwashed them against her.
Ford and Gillette lived for a decade on the remote British island territory Turks and Caicos, about 600 miles southeast of Miami, with little connection to the outside world. She explained that it was when they moved back to Florida full-time in 2007 that Gillette began exerting a lot of control over her, practically smothering her while they made her 2009 album, “Wicked Wonderland”, her first release of new material in 14 years.
Earlier this month, Lita made an appearance on the “Veterans In Politics” TV show on WWDBTV.com to discuss her work as an activist for parental alienation and her efforts to get through to her own children.
Speaking about her custody arrangement with her ex-husband, Lita said:
“By the time our divorce was final and everything was said and done, it was such a joke that it didn’t matter what I got on paper. There was no way I was gonna be in those boys’ lives. They were such a mess by the time I left and my ex-husband left that it just didn’t matter. I just needed to walk away from everything and regroup and come back with Plan B.
She continued:
“The big problem for me was I couldn’t find them after hiring four or five private investigators and them being out of the country in a Carribbean island. I really didn’t have any United States… The Hague Convention, the Hague treaty was working against me with them being in a Caribbean island. And when they did come back to the United States, it took me nine years to track them down and find out that they were living in Tennessee. If somebody wants to fall below the radar, they can.”
