'Chevy Chase says in new bio was beaten by mother'

[Bluebear]

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comic actor Chevy Chase describes a childhood of beatings and psychological abuse at the hands of his mother and stepfather in a new authorized biography, the New York Post reported on Monday...

"She would say to me, 'Ten lashes on the backs over your legs every day for a week at 5 p.m.," Chase says in the book, to be published by Virgin Books next month and titled, I'm Chevy Chase ... And You're Not.

"How can you hold on to that kind of a anger against your kid?," Chase says. "I knew I was a 'bad boy' but I didn't know that everybody wasn't punished in the same way I was."...

"I always turn to it in my mind," he said. "I'll never forgive them. At their graves I didn't. It was too hard for me. You would think a grown man could shake it off, as the coffin was lowered, to say, 'I forgive you.' I don't forgive."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/24/AR2007042401029.html

[Deja Q]

1. Roseanne's sob story was more fun to read.

And I need to still get my book published. Mine's more fun than theirs' combined. :P

[Xipe Totec]

2. I look forward to it!

Let us know when you go to print. No, I'm serious. I'm not being sarcastic.

My parents beat the crap out of me, but looking back at it, I got off easy considering the stuff I pulled.

Some of my friends from school, on the other hand, I remember them showing me blood welts ont their backs, legs, and arms.

My beatings raised welts, but never, ever to the point of leaving subcutaneous hemorrhages that took sometimes more than a month to clear.

[wildhorses]

3. my dad whooped me with his belt and my mom used to make

me go get my switch off the tree...

[TahitiNut]

4. Hiya, sis!

We must be siblings. :scared:

[wildhorses]

6. hey bro ---

why did you rat me out :rofl:

yeah, different times

:hi:

[johnnie]

5. My mom found that Hot wheel tracks didn;t break

Man, those suckers hurt.

[wildhorses]

7. who yeah and she could really get some leverage on that

did it make a whooshing noise before it hit?

[12string]

8. My Granny

  always had a butcher knife in hand.She chopped the kindling
for the woodstove with it every morning.My Dad finally got her
to go electric but not 'til 1963.She would butcher your rabbit
with it,and if you got out of hand she would paddle your butt
with it.Needless to say when you got a whipping from Granny
you didn't jump around or stick your hands in the way.The last
thing she did at night was slip it through the door casing as
an extra lock on the door.                                    

[MikeH]

9. Good for Chevy Chase!

I am glad to hear about Chevy Chase not forgiving his parents. I am very happy about his saying so publicly, and I think it is a right and healthy decision.

I admire the Swiss psychotherapist and writer Alice Miller for her challenging the commandment, one of the "Ten Commandments" often attributed to God, to honor one's father and mother, and the resultant obligation to forgive them and absolve them of blame, and to always speak well of them.

My father was not the worst father or worst parent anybody ever had, and he did many very good things, but he was still sometimes at least borderline abusive, especially emotionally and psychologically (though I did also get my share of spankings when I was a kid).

I used to be a Christian; one of the reasons I no longer am is that I found Christianity to be of no help to me when in dealing with my dad when he was obnoxious or abusive. So I don't have any Christian duty to forgive my dad, not being a Christian any more.