Patrick Stewart shocks at domestic violence: “I screamed to protect my mother”

Veteran Patrick Stewart, shocks as he confesses that he grew up in a violent house, in documentary about her. 84-year-old actor Patrick Stewart revealed how from a young age he had to “scream” at his father to stop when he beat his mother “again and again”. He listened to the frightening outbursts along with his older brother and how he became “special” in knowing when he had to intervene and protect his mother. The leading artist – with a rich career of seven decades – also spoke of the “throat” and “favor” he experienced seeing abuse, which led him to seek treatment in his later life. He made this revelation in an ITV documentary that records Queen Camilla’s work on domestic violence. He also explained how he begged his mother to leave their father and even offered to buy her a house once he became a successful actor. But he said he reached the painful finding that she “would never leave him (his father)”. Stewart explained how his “perfect” life was overturned when he was only six years old when his father returned from World War II. “The war ended in 1945, so when my father came home, I was six years old, and it was scary. The voices were so loud because he had a loud voice. I screamed at my father to stop when he beat my mother and beat her over and over,” he said and filled: “My brother and I became experts in understanding where the voices would lead, and we always knew the moment when violence would begin. So, in this way, we pushed the door and broke into the room, and my brother Trevor, who was taller than me, was cornering between my father and my mother so she couldn’t reach her and she was yelling, no, no, no, no, please. You don’t have to protect me.”