yes I think it was! the year before MM was on the stage along with the This Morning team
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with all due respect Ive suffered first hand when it comes to an abuser (although not sexual abuse) I based my post on situations I have encountered! I can only imagine that MM has potentially suffered the same kind of tactics and may be a big possibly that's why he hasn't spoke out etc Im sorry you choose to say Im almost scaremongering no more like being realistic and of course things have to change but it aint going to happen until the all bad apples are destroyed
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i've replied to your other post without seeing you have mentioned it here we are all pals here wanting more than anything to bring abusers to justice!
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yes I wonder why the brother decided to go into IT. extremely handy especially working for the police
I’m sorry about the abuse you suffered and I agree it’s not anywhere near as simple as going to the police, or even an adult.
Abuse, particularly sexual, causes shame in its victims. It’s no easy thing to just reckon with and March down the police station. Will you even be believed?
And then there’s all the issues around dealing with the mental aftermath of being sexually assaulted as a minor. Speaking up means everyone knows you were molested forevermore. That’s not easy to live with.
Not the same but I spoke up and went ‘public’- I.e confronted the issues face on with my parents and was open to the rest of the family- about the violence and bullying I was subjected to as a kid. Not one of my family members supported me. They didn’t want to believe that my parents- mainly my mum- were capable of such awful things- so they did some mental gymnastics to believe that she was the poor victim of her husband. Where did that leave me? In a
tit position, so I left them all behind.
Now imagine that my abuse was sexual and by someone famous. Me speaking up about what I went through could cause a public backlash and my name and face forever known as someone who was molested by Philip Schofield. That’s going to follow me my whole life.
It’s not easy to report and speak up. It’s messy and mentally scarring and incredibly complicated.