She’s Been Self-Sufficient For A While Mimi was “torn away” from her mother, Gloria Olaiya Odofunke Simmons,at the age of 13 and had to learn to fend for herself (translation, she was kicked out of a communal home because she didn’t want to become a Scientologist like her mom). Faust has said the her mother chose the religion over her children. Simmons died in 2003.
