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From The New York Daily News

Filmmaker Tyler Perry, who is promoting a new movie about an abused teenager, has gone public with brutal memories of his own childhood beatings and molestation.

In an email to fans that has Perry’s admirers buzzing, he recounts various examples of terrible childhood mistreatment – from his father beating him senseless to a neighbor woman molesting him at age 10.

He recounted being beaten by his father for reading books and filching cookies.

“He got the vacuum cleaner extension cord and trapped me in a room and beat me until the skin was coming off my back.
To this day, I don’t know what would make a person do something like that to a child,” Perry wrote.

Without elaborating on what seems to be another molestation incident, he mentioned “a man that I knew from church when I was a kid” who had died broke and whose family asked Perry to pay for the funeral.

“I quickly said no, but I wish I would have said yes. There is something so powerful to me in burying the man that molested me,” Perry wrote.

“I would have dug the grave myself.”

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MZ_COTTON_KANDI_83/ MZ_COTTON_KANDI_83

    All of the trials and tribulations that Tyler Perry endured as an adolescent, and he sill has manged to become a wonderful, loving, successful young man. This is just living proof that there is a loving God that will never give up on you as long as you don’t give up and yourself. Tyler could have easily become just another statistic that gave up on life long ago. Becoming another abuser himself. But he didn’t. He didn’t choose to go on the road of self-destruction and bitterness. He choose the road of growth and life. No matter what you’ve done or have gone through it’s never to late ladies and gentleme to turn nothing positive into something brilliant. GOD inspires and moves people when we let go of the anger, hurt, and rage, GOD MOVES!!!

    PROUD OF MY LOUISIANA NATIVE, BUT YOU BELONG TO ALL OF US TYLER

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DMY19151/ DMY19151

    DAMN…THT’S DEEP…BUT AT LEAST GOD MADE YOU WELL ENOUGH TO GET THRU ALL OF THOSE THINGS AND BE THE PERSON YOU ARE TODAY…WHT TYLER PERRY DID FOR THE CHILDREN IN PHILLY…THAT WAS A POWER MOVE….A GOOD HEART….IS WHAT COUNTS OUT HERE !

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AnJaaylas-Way/ AnJaaylas-Way

    Molestation in the black neighborhood is all too prevalent just not talked about. That’s why a lot of people turn to sex, drugs, and confused about their sexual identity. It’s sad that are children aren’t being protected.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez

    i always suspected this !!!

    child molesters, rapists etc……….die slow

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    Good way to surpress, the homo accusations… dont mean the typecast still gone fly “dress boy” Man up and flip the script

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    Before I get assulted by the hurds of women that will cry at this very post, I hope and pray that Tyler will open up his studio to all directors and producers who are active in this industry that would also help other people instead of just giving jobs to people, he would be making it so they dont have to rely on outside sources, a mere thought in enriching our black people!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzpast/ jazzpast

    It is disheartening what he had to endure, and I am happy for him for opening up to it so the voiceless can find solace that they are not alone. However, he needs to let people know to how he really acquired so much wealth and respect from hollywood(a pawn of the elite society). I still want to know to why a 38 or 39 year old man, whos been under the spotlight for so long, is not married, no girlfriend and never seen with a woman in public?????

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    [...]  Tyler Perry says he was molested – While promoting his newest movie about an abuse teen, Perry has opened up about getting beaten unconscious by his father and being molested by a neighbor. “He got the vacuum cleaner extension cord and trapped me in a room and beat me until the skin was coming off my back. To this day, I don’t know what would make a person do something like that to a child,” Perry wrote. (NewsOne)  [...]

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    Because he said he is waiting for the right one…. hmmmmmmm?

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