Patrick Stewart spricht über die „schreckliche“ Erfahrung, in einem gewalttätigen Elternhaus aufgewachsen zu sein: „Ich fühlte mich beschämt“

> In an interview for the new ITV documentary Her Majesty The Queen: Behind Closed Doors, the actor said, “Domestic violence was something that people never spoke about. And so I never told anyone. I kept it all to myself. It was locked inside me, and I felt shame,” per U.K. newspaper The Times.

> Speaking about his own experienced, Stewart, 84, recalled, “The war ended in 1945. So I was, by the time my father came home, 6 years old. And it was horrifying.”

> “The shouting was so loud because he had a huge voice,” continued the Star Trek: The Next Generation alum, adding that he “would scream at my father to stop when he hit my mother and hit her again and again.”

such a hard thing to live through, yet it affects so very, very many