Tyler Perry Details His Horrific Past in Precious Promotional Letter to Fans
In what will undoubtedly take the cake as being the most disturbing viral marketing campaign for any movie this year, Tyler Perry, in a recent message on his website, described the first time he watched Precious, and how it opened a spigot of repressed memories from a childhood wrought with unthinkable abuses. "I'm tired of holding this in," he wrote. "I don't know what to do with it anymore, so, I've decided to give some of it away..."
Among his memories:
· The time his mother tried to escape with his two sisters, but since she took a car registered in his father's name, he had her arrested and had all three thrown in jail. He bailed them out in California and beat his wife in front of the kids for the entire trip back to Louisiana.
· He recently came face to face with the mother of a childhood friend who, thirty years ago, locked her son in the bathroom and told Perry that if he wanted to leave her apartment, he'd have to fish the key out of her vagina.
· Perry's father once came home drunk and beat him with a vacuum cleaner extension cord until the "skin was coming off my back."
· He was once approached to pay for the funeral of a neighborhood man who'd molested him.
· When his grandmother found out Perry visited the doctor once a week for allergy shots, she forced him to take a bath in ammonia, saying, "Ain't nothing wrong with that damn boy...he just got germs on him. Stop wasting all that money."
[Photo: SHIHO FUKADA/AP PHOTO]
· We're all PRECIOUS in His sight [TylerPerry.com]
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Diagnosis of a Mad Black Woman... and suddenly it all snaps into focus.
Stunning ... his successful life is all the more remarkable based on his past. It's amazing he hasn't revealed all this on Oprah, or the cover of People magazine, or other standard confessional outlets. Then again, Perry always seems to follow his own path.
Okay, now I'm gonna need all his films reviewed here with a "Vagina Key-Fishing Threat Level," please.
big deal. we all have gone through shit. get over it, you fucking millionaire.
It's a bad omen to have folks like you, who most likely grew up spoon-fed and had servants milling around to answer your most mundane needs responding to issues as serious as the psychological trauma as Tyler Perry has had to bottle up over the years.
If you had an inkling of what it means for a child to be consigned to such beastly treatments, then you'd not make light of the lifelong trauma that they leave in their trail in the soul of anybody, male or female, successful or not. Get a life bozo, such horrors of life are real.
None of this would have been necessary if Mo'Nique had sat down with Robin Roberts.
too bad you didn't have an english tutor milling around you when you were growing up.
If you have never gone through child abuse, then you have no idea what child abuse survivors go through. I am a 49 year old woman who is not a millionaire. From time to time, when I see someone being mistreated, I always try to help them or rescue them in anyway that I can. The good side is that is what people should do. The down side is that all of the memories of the sad little scared girl that I was comes flooding back. I have weeks of bad or uneasy dreams. You would be surprised the number of people that have been abused in their lives, if you took the time to ask.
Be a part of the solution. Don't be a part of the problem. Life is too precious to waste.