In an open email to fans and the world, the accomplished Tyler Perry opened up about about his own dark past, which included an abusive father and a female neighbor who molested him at the age of 10.
The executive producer of Precious has made no secret about his destructive childhood, but proceeds to elaborate more on it, in order to help those see that from terrible strife can come tremendous success.
He speaks in depth about his father, who was constantly physically abusing him, for minor crimes like stealing cookies or even reading books:
“He got the vacuum cleaner extension cord and trapped me in a room and beat me until the skin was coming off my back. To this day, I don’t know what would make a person do something like that to a child.”
Nor do we, but it certainly is a horrible image to think about.
As for his tragic experience with molestation, he writes briefly of another encounter with a man at his church when he was a child. Years later, when the man died without a cent to his name, the family asked Tyler to pay for the funeral. He had refused, not now he wishes he hadn’t:
“There is something so powerful to me in burying the man that molested me. I would have dug the grave myself.”
And after all that, now he is a millionaire! A respected gentleman of the Hollywood industry. It is sad to think about what he has gone through in his life, but it is something to marvel at to know he rose about the pain to create an amazing life for himself.
We guess the point of all this is for young people to see that if he can do it, anyone can.
[Image via WENN.]
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