The youngest daughter of Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author Alice Munro has said her stepfather sexually abused her and that her mother chose to support her husband instead of her child. Andrea Robin Skinner said she opted to tell her story in a first-person essay in the Toronto Star to give Canadians a more nuanced picture of Munro.
The youngest daughter of celebrated Canadian author Alice Munro has opened up about sexual abuse by her stepfather and the deep hurt she felt when her mother chose to support her husband instead of her child. WARNING: This article contains graphic content and may affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone affected by it.
In the Star piece, Skinner said she opted to tell her story so Canadians could have a more nuanced picture of the Nobel Laureate, who was revered as a literary icon long before her death in May."I ... wanted this story — my story — to become part of the stories people tell about my mother," she wrote.
Skinner said she initially told her father and stepbrother what had happened, but neither she nor her father informed Munro right away. In her 20s, Skinner wrote Munro a letter detailing her stepfather's abuse, but she said she received no sympathy from her mother. Skinner reported the abuse to police in 2005, and her stepfather, Gerald Fremlin, ultimately pled guilty to a charge of indecent assault. In her 20s, Skinner wrote Munro a letter detailing Fremlin's abuse, but she said she received no sympathy from her mother.
But, Munro remained with Fremlin until he died in 2013. Munro said she had been "told too late" about the abuse, that she loved him too much to leave him and that she couldn't be expected to "deny her own needs," Skinner wrote in the Star.
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