Legendary actor Sir Patrick Stewart opens up about the horrific domestic abuse he witnessed as a child, revealing how it impacted his life and how he sought therapy to cope with the painful memories.
Sir Patrick Stewart has revealed how he sought therapy in later life to deal with the memories of the horrific domestic abuse his father inflicted on his mother. The British actor said he felt “shame and humiliation” after meeting peers whose home life’s were totally different from his. And he recalled how he and his older brother Trevor would listen to dad Alfred’s outbursts before attempting to shield mum Gladys from harm.
In unseen clips from a landmark ITV documentary following Queen Camilla ’s work with domestic violence campaigners and victims, The Mirror reports Stewart said he and Trevor - who was five years older than him - “had become experts” in knowing the moment when their father would begin being physical. He also told of his pain in begging his mother to leave their father, even later becoming a successful actor and offering to buy her a house, only to realise she would “never leave him”. Stewart, whose career has spanned seven decades, said his “perfect” life was shattered when he was just six-years-old and his father returned from WWII. He said: “My life with my mother and my brother was perfect. We got on well. There was no arguing or shouting or getting upset or anything like that. It was just wonderful. The war ended in 1945 so by the time my father came home, I was six years old, and it was horrifying. “The shouting was so loud because he had a huge voice. I would scream at my father to stop when he hit my mother and hit her again and again. And there were times when we used to sit on the steps leading down from the bedrooms, right behind the door that opened up into the one living room, and we would sit right behind it. “My brother and I, we became experts at understanding where the shouting was going, what it was going to lead to, and we always knew the moment that the violence was going to begin
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