Michael Richards reveals that he was the result of his mother's sexual assault and that it led to many of his anger issues.
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This led Richards to confront his mother, who confessed that she had been raped and did not even know the name of the man responsible. She was only 26 years old at the time, and it was 1948, meaning abortion was both illegal and exceedingly dangerous. She did consider it, as well as adoption, and Richards writes in his memoir that she did not bring him home from the hospital following his birth.
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