I told Alice Munro her husband abused me, she stayed with him – Daughter

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Andrea Robin Skinner, Canadian writer Alice Munro’s daughter, revealed on Sunday, July 7, that her stepfather sexually abused her as a child and that even though her mother was told, stayed with him, in an ugly account published after the death of the Nobel laureate.

Skinner wrote in the Toronto Star that in 1976, when she was just nine years old “one night, while she (Alice Munro) was away, her husband, my stepfather, Gerald Fremlin, climbed into the bed where I was sleeping and sexually assaulted me.”

She wrote that when she was alone with Fremlin — who died in 2013 — he “exposed himself during car rides, told me about the little girls in the neighborhood he liked, and described my mother’s sexual needs.”

According to Munro’s daughter, at 25, she shared everything that had happened with Munro — but the author decided to stay with Fremlin, whom she wed ..... [urlhttps://nigeriansonline.org/i-told-alice-munro-her-husband-abused-me-she-stayed-with-him-daughter/[/url]