While Chaz Bono made frequent cameos on his parents' variety show, his little brother, Elijah Blue Allman, was rarely seen by fans. Because his parents were busy with their careers and sometimes on the road, Elijah spent the bulk of his school-age years at boarding schools. In 2014, he told Entertainment Tonight about how that lifestyle affected him as a kid. "When you go to boarding school at 7 years old, it's kind of hard to feel like you're not being shunned," he said.
Elijah added that while he learned to make peace with his childhood traumas as an adult, it still didn't make it "right." According to the Daily Mail, Elijah attended multiple boarding schools over a 10-year span, and his mother once "punished" him for getting into trouble at school by sending him to a military academy for one year.
Revealing more about his unconventional childhood, Elijah told ET that while he was close to Chaz when they were young, the two grew apart because they weren't "geographically around each other" after their parents sent them to different East Coast schools. Elijah also admitted that as an adult, he still has "issues" with his mom. "We've worked through a lot of them," he shared. "We've got some more to go ... there's unresolved stuff, for sure."
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