The rapper-and-actress has taken her dad Linwood Jones into her home so she can care for him as he has a "small case" of the dementia condition - which affects the memory and motor skills of sufferers - and she made the decision to put their personal history aside to help him. She told the New York Post newspaper: "My father had ex-wife troubles. Also health issues. He shakes. Spills coffee and food. We have to cook for him, pour his juice. His sickness wasn`t diagnosed, but it`s a small case of Alzheimer`s. I know about `Honour Thy Father and Mother.` My father and I were estranged, but I`ve taken him in. He lives with me." Kim had been estranged from her father after he decided to throw her out of his home when she was just a teenager after raising her as a single parent when he split from her mother Ruby Mae when the `Magic Stick` hitmaker was nine. Kim knows she has a reputation as a bad girl because she was jailed for a year for conspiracy and perjury in March 2005 for lying in court about her and her friends involvement in a 2001 shooting outside the Hot 97 radio studios in Manhattan, New York. But the `Superhero Movie` actress is adamant her reputation is unjustified because she is actually a good person with morals. She insisted: "People around me know I do good. My mom lived with me until I went away. She`s now in Delaware. "Nobody gives me a chance. It was difficult when I went away. It`s still difficult. But God`s working on helping to understand me. Someday people will. I can`t help people thinking I`m a badass ... Look, a girlfriend of mine got pregnant. Her husband`s abusive. So she`s staying with me. I know about respect. I listen to whoever needs. I take care of all my friends to the fullest. It`s a blessing - and a curse."