LOS ANGELES—With her slight frame, wide eyes, and long black hair, Raven Faith projects the feeling of a fragile yet beautiful bird as she recounts memories of her tumultuous life—enduring countless brutal beatings and near starvation as a child, becoming homeless, being stalked, and surviving two near-fatal car accidents in her 45 years.
“My life is so awful, I couldn’t make it up,” she said.