‘His honesty gave courage to survivors’: domestic abuse charities praise Patrick Stewart’s legacy
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Actor first shared his childhood experiences as part of Amnesty International campaign and became Refuge ambassadorWhen Patrick Stewart was growing up in the 1940s, he witnessed how, after his father beat his mother, home doctors and ambulance workers would tell her: “You must ha...
Actor first shared his childhood experiences as part of Amnesty International campaign and became Refuge ambassador
When Patrick Stewart was growing up in the 1940s, he witnessed how, after his father beat his mother, home doctors and ambulance workers would tell her: “You must have done something to provoke him.”
Stewart knew the violence was never warranted, a conviction that became the spark for a lasting commitment to campaigning for greater understanding of domestic abuse.
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