Do You Really Want To William Hurt Me?
I've heard several stories about William Hurt being a major asshole and boozer, but I really didn't know he was a lady beater. In her new book, Marlee Matlin claims that William Hurt beat her ass constantly during their 2-year relationship in the 80s. This shit makes me sad, because I've always had a weird thing for William Hurt. Especially in Body Heat. Well, fuck.
Marlee says that the night she won the Oscar for Children of a Lesser God, she had bruises on her body from William beating her. She told Access Hollywood, “I was afraid. I was always afraid… of him. But I loved him. I did. Or maybe I thought I did. But look, I was 19, he was 35. We were together for two years. We lived together and it was one of the most… He’s one of the most complex persons that I’ve ever dealt with. But, at the time, living with him was different than anything I’ve ever experienced.”
Marlee said the abuse was so bad that she had fresh bruises on her body every day. She never called the cops to report his ass, because she was a cokehead at the time and the bad shit was fucking with her thinking. Marlee said, "The drugs took over my life, took over my brain. I was 19 and I was alone in New York City. I had no friends there except my drug dealer. I could say that I understand how women are afraid to leave an abusive relationship. They should, but at the same time, I understand how they don’t know how.”
When asked to comment, William Hurt's spokesbitch said nothing. And I doubt he ever will.
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I always have empathy and SOME sympathy for abused women but cokehead or not, unless he was physically sitting on her chest, she could've left at anytime. who needs a drunk fucktard when you've got an Oscar?
My jaw just dropped to the floor - William Hurt a beater? Marlee - forget about the 20yrs and think of it like it was yesterday....now go kick his ass.
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Submitted by vedamaria on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 10:22pm.
Submitted by dreadpiratecuervo on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 12:21pm.
But really, how did she communicate w/her dealer? This was before text messaging or even caller id. I get that she could talk to him face to face, but was she just popping up on his doorstep all the time? I mean, she couldn't have been making TTY or whatever calls to ask for an 8 ball.
LMFAO @ the last sentence, seriously, I'm crying.
What do you think you're looking at, sugar tits?
Hey Lory the sad part is that nutty women like gun toting Sarah Palin would put a stop to any legislation to control guns...we women can be our own worse enemy sometimes...sheesh. And Tigerlilly you got a point...my mom always said that some men do not understand anything but an ass kicking and a dollar bill. And if that was not bad enough some idiot made a movie making fun of date rape????WTF
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/10/observe-and-report-date-r_n_185...
She should have spoken up.
When she was at Betty Ford and got the nomination and was just out of the Bill Hurt sitch..why didnt she press charges? Id bet a billion dollars Betty Ford brought that to her attention
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The war isn't working.
I hate celebrities that publish their 4th steps and out other peoples inventories while they air theirs. This is ancient history and both of them were waisted and both have been sober for decades... and her career is over...so now she does a tell all? She's a hysteric..and has had years to recover and speak out, I call bullshit on this one. Im not saying it didnt happen. She was a drug addict and that was her choice. Her abuse as a child was not and that is sad . Hurt was a fucked up guy but has been in recovery for years. His amends are his business and his sobriety should have been his too. She is wrong.
Actresses are always the sickest in the rooms
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The war isn't working.
kww, Women sponsoring guns would be pretty cool! Imagine telling a man "You can';t own a gun unless your ass learns how to control itself!" Sweet!!!
Tiger, LOL. That is what I told my BH on our fifth date.
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Submitted by dreadpiratecuervo on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 12:21pm.
But really, how did she communicate w/her dealer? This was before text messaging or even caller id. I get that she could talk to him face to face, but was she just popping up on his doorstep all the time? I mean, she couldn't have been making TTY or whatever calls to ask for an 8 ball.
LMFAO @ the last sentence, seriously, I'm crying.
Look we womens gotta take these approaches to domestic abuse, then it will (virtually) stop
1) knife meet heart
2) bullet meet brain
3) poison meet bloodstream
I tell all my boyfriends, "if you ever hit me, I will kill (as in murder) you." I think all women should say that shit...AND mean it...
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Sorry, Roger, you are tiger now...
Right On Lory! Something is going on in the country...men are killing children and women; and sometimes both in terms of the pregnant women slain at the hands of angry men. Statistics show the domestic violence is on the rise and I am not sure why but it is alarming. I am afraid of the world my daughter is growing up in. It is not safe to be a woman or a child in this world. Statistics show women are responsible for roughly 7% of all the murders in the US. Men murder 93% of all murder victims in this country. Personally I think men should have to be sponsored by a woman in order to own a gun. And they should be limited to one gun period! If a woman does not sponsor them then they can not legally own a gun. This might help control some of the senseless violence that occurs in the home against women...of course they can always use knives or their hands, etc...but I am just thinking aloud out of my frustrations.
Abusers are manipulative to the extreme. They make the victim believe it is their fault. People tend to internalize this situation and think in terms of themselves that they would never accept abusive behaviour from no one. Well good for you! But guess what, this abusive behaviour escalates. Abusive men do not enter your life kicking and screaming at your door. They arrive with smooth talk and sweet kisses. People love to think this would never happen to them because it makes them somehow, live the illusion that they are safe, when in fact given the right circumstances some (I said some) of the toughest women we know, could fall in the hell that is an abusive relationship. On the other hand, I can see the "support" the victim is getting here and I can clearly see why some women never talk about this to other women, they are scared someone's going to laugh at their faces and tell them that "if they are stupid enough to be in an abusive relationship, then they deserve to be beaten" or that "they were asking for it". Now and then it would be nice to realize that well yes, we are strong and independent women but not everyone is that lucky and it is those unlucky women (and some men too) who need help and support. Why would you help someone who doesn't need it?
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I have met very few women that are as strong or stronger than a man. Sure there are big women out there but that does not equate into brute strength. Nor does it mean that a smaller man can not be strong or mean. Women might do something stupid and hit a man out of anger if he cheats, or does something else...but the punishment must fit the crime. And a real man does not react or act violently towards a woman instead he walks away and gets out of the relationship if he sees that she is unstable and can't deal with conflict without losing it. Men and women will never be on an even playing field when it comes to strength. Clearly in this case the fact he was 35 and she was 19 tells me he is the one that had the biggest issues...I mean come on what he can't relate to a woman his own age? Why be attracted to and date a teenager???????? People give men a pass for heinous shit. Like Woody Allen marrying his Common law wife's adopted daughter...he helped raise her...??? That is as bad as the crap Michael Jackson is accused of IMO... but he gets called JACKO and Woody is just Woody...WTFeva
Hurt always came off as creepy. When Matlin won the Oscar, he was pissed. According to her, they were in a limo after the event, and he was telling her that she didn't deserve the Oscar and that winning the Oscar didn't make her special.
So he beat her as well? Yeah, I believe it.
I've never heard any of this Hurt stuff before. I guess he's just not one of those actors you really pay attention to.
Submitted by Fartface McMuffin on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 3:13pm.
Of course he beat her... SHE NEVER LISTENS!!!!!
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that is so fucking sick....
and so fucking funny!!!! ahahahahahahaha!!!!!
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It sounds like I'll need to be drunk, stoned and suffering from a minor concussion to deal with this fuckery. MK - 11/24/2008
Of course he beat her... SHE NEVER LISTENS!!!!!
Damn benadryl/prednisone addled brain..somehow I skipped over she's pimping a book.
How long before her's and TORI da HUT hit the bargin bin at Barnes & Noble? A month?
*Freebird: mantra of the moron*
~Bill Hicks~
*Yawn*
That must have made for some fun Friday nights.
A coked out deaf mute spazzing around, and a douche using her as a punching bag.
I'ved lived by such train wrecks. Gets to the point you don't even hear the dry wall being crunched anymore. Or notice the cops making the umpth trip to their apartment.
Hurt's an asshole for pounding Marlee, but dealing with a coke head isn't unicorns, Hello Kitty and rainbows either.
Why's this hit coming out now? Book or movie?
*Freebird: mantra of the moron*
~Bill Hicks~
Okay you got me kanderso, it's all my fault! You win *eyeroll*
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"Sam put drugs in Britney's biscuits"
Look, iHeartHaters. I take, like 5 things on the entire planet seriously and this is one of them. I find it hard to imagine how one would avoid taking it seriously.
But whatever, you apparently have an axe to grind with battered women - not sure why - so grind away. I suppose it doesn't really matter what you think. The law and science disagree with you.
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True story:
Twenty-seven years ago, I lived with two roomates in a dump of a combination garage and apartment house. The couple downstairs, I'll call them Ralph and Sherry Lee, were constantly beating the shit out of each other. They were alcoholic biker types.
Sherry Lee would say she couldn't leave Ralph because he got her off crank. Guess how he got her off it. He held her and burned her ass on an open oven door, that's how. She'd recount that story lovingly.
Then Ralph broke his leg. He couldn't chase Sherry Lee, so she'd torment the shit out of him and laugh because he couldn't catch her and beat her.
Good times!
"JUST SMILE LIKE A NORMAL FUCKED UP PERSON."
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OMG. That is so completely, totally disgusting. I knew Hurt was an asshole on set and to directors, but I never thought he was an abuser of women. I used to sort of like him, too, assholishness aside (really, most actors are complete assholes). I guess I won't be able to watch "Michael" anymore. Crap.
I really can't stand Marlee Maitlin and I have no idea why.
Yep EEG. And when I see shit like that, that's what makes me just say, "whatever...they are both dumb cunts" and let them have each other. Let em beat the hell out of each other, fuck it. LOL
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2007~It was a truly magical time in Shitneyland.
"Sam put drugs in Britney's biscuits"
iheart,
Certainly does. Called masochism.
Submitted by gia on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 1:29pm.
Marlee was not an angel, not that that excuses his abuse, but she could have been abusive to him as well. There are some men woman can verbally abuse & hit & there are some men that arent going to take that crap lying down.
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That is correct also. There are many types and kinds of spousal/relationship abuse. It's not always the 'man beats the woman' type situation. Many times is is 2-sided. Another fact some people cannot readily accept.
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2007~It was a truly magical time in Shitneyland.
"Sam put drugs in Britney's biscuits"
I always kind of crushed a little on William Hurt, even though I knew he was a bad boy...I am not surprised he is an abusive ass, I am sure he is arrogant & self righteous as all hell too.
Marlee was not an angel, not that that excuses his abuse, but she could have been abusive to him as well. There are some men woman can verbally abuse & hit & there are some men that arent going to take that crap lying down.
Ziggy I am not talking about someone stuffed into a friggin suitcase. That is extreme. I am speaking of your everyday run-of-the-mill relationship abuse. Don't throw some bizarre scenario into it, it has nothing to do with what I am talking about. I know what I said and I do not change my stance on it. You can hate me all you want but it's MY opinion and I stand by it. Some abused people, instead of getting out, use their abuse to manipulate others for attention & sympathy. Do not tell me that doesn't exist because it does. People have a really hard time accepting this fact.
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2007~It was a truly magical time in Shitneyland.
"Sam put drugs in Britney's biscuits"
I know I heard this years and years ago. And I think Mary Beth Hurt had some things to say when they broke up, too.
He's one of those few actors I wish all the bad things I've heard about him weren't true, because I like his work.
No, I didn't mean Stockholm Syndrome. I deliberately avoided using the term 'Stockholm Syndrome' because it is a construct of suspect validity. Pop psychiatry isn't a passion of mine.
I'd be interested to know how you account for the case of Carol Smith though. A woman who was stuffed inside a box for seven years and repeatedly raped by her abuser. Not once did she try to escape.
P.S. Eleven letters a long word doth not make.
She's not just coming out with this now, I heard about this years ago. But what does it matter? She has a right to tell her story. Is it really so difficult to believe a 19 year old who is deaf, and isolated, in a big city, would be vulnerable to a smooth talking 35 year old perpetrator like Hurt?
"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
- Susan B. Anthony
Submitted by Bunny Rabbit on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 1:09pm.
As much as we want to baby our 19-year olds in our culture, she was a full grown adult, and she had every chance to get out. I don't understand why she was even dating such an older man to begin with, unless it was to further her own nascent career. When I was 19, I thought 22 was too old for me. While I am not defending William Hurt, there's always two sides to the story
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2007~It was a truly magical time in Shitneyland.
"Sam put drugs in Britney's biscuits"
OMG! I cannot believe what I am reading! I am ROFLMALTC! Some people are sooooo funny!
For those of you who don't know what ROFLMALTC is, it is a term coined by our very own Jiggywiddit: Roll on floor laughing manically a la Tom Cruise. I have to give credit where credit is due!
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Submitted by Miss Thang on Wed, 04/08/2009 - 10:17am.
I aint no psychiatrist, but I am bipolar ............
Submitted by ginger_t on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 12:08pm.
To everyone saying 20 years is too late to dredge this up: Did you think the same about the scores of children abused by the Catholic church when they brought their cases to light?
Compassion? Logic? ::crickets::
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The Catholic church thing is completely different--that was abuse perpetrated on children by adults. This is an adult beating another adult. As much as we want to baby our 19-year olds in our culture, she was a full grown adult, and she had every chance to get out. I don't understand why she was even dating such an older man to begin with, unless it was to further her own nascent career. When I was 19, I thought 22 was too old for me. While I am not defending William Hurt, there's always two sides to the story.
I think he mean Stockholm SYNDROME.
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2007~It was a truly magical time in Shitneyland.
"Sam put drugs in Britney's biscuits"
Look at those frames! Marlee is the original hot slut.
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Now that I think about it, it IS demented that a 35 year old man would want to have a relationship with a 19 year old woman. Some MAJOR control issues are involved...older men who are womanizers often go for younger women just so that they can control them, in Hurt's case he wanted to dominate her through abuse and manipulation (and probably bought most of the drugs they consumed together as well). He probably wasn't only physically abusive either, that was the "complexity" that Marlee was talking about here, which probably means he was also emotionally and mentally abusive and manipulative. GROSS!
"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." Audre Lorde
Oh nevermind. Ziggy used big words. He wins. *eyeroll*
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"Sam put drugs in Britney's biscuits"
yucky story
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Well i sat next to and then held the door open for William Hurt-your-girlfriends last night at a bar in NYC and he seemed like a nice guy to me. However he did spend the night drawing pictures on the paper tablecloth of women. true story.
IHeartHaters,
I wonder how you account for Stockholm-like symptoms and their variants. Presumably you place cause and effect on agency, as you have so erroneously done in the case of domestic violence.
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Snideychick sez:
Complex person=asshole.
And abusers are always very charming (in the beginning) so they can lure in their next victim.
Submitted by iHeartHaters on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 12:41pm.
Submitted by Falkor on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 12:32pm.
@ihearthaters
Oooohhhh.....I like what you have to say in this thread!
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Hi, sorry to be such a hardass but I have worked with women who fought desperately to get out of these types of situations. I have also dealt with women who would not leave but expected me & other friends to drop everything for them, then get mad when they are offered help that they asked for. I know the difference between someone truly hurting and someone who refuses to change their situation and uses it for sympathy. It's a waste of everyone's time and I do not have time for ignorant people. I have all the time in the world for those who WANT help. Those women should be applauded. It is entirely life-changing to get away from your abuser.
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So true, so true. You dont even know how much I understand what your getting at.
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Submitted by ZiggyStardust on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 12:41pm.
Right back at you, tard.
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You have a fucking signature quote...come on now. Doesn't get much worse. aeon312 4/3/09
Submitted by ZiggyStardust on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 12:41pm.
Please eat my ass with a wooden spoon. Thanks in advance.
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2007~It was a truly magical time in Shitneyland.
"Sam put drugs in Britney's biscuits"
Submitted by Falkor on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 12:32pm.
@ihearthaters
Oooohhhh.....I like what you have to say in this thread!
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Hi, sorry to be such a hardass but I have worked with women who fought desperately to get out of these types of situations. I have also dealt with women who would not leave but expected me & other friends to drop everything for them, then get mad when they are offered help that they asked for. I know the difference between someone truly hurting and someone who refuses to change their situation and uses it for sympathy. It's a waste of everyone's time and I do not have time for ignorant people. I have all the time in the world for those who WANT help. Those women should be applauded. It is entirely life-changing to get away from your abuser.
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2007~It was a truly magical time in Shitneyland.
"Sam put drugs in Britney's biscuits"
Submitted by iHeartHaters on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 12:00pm.
Please stop posting.
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I thought this was pretty common knowledge..He beat the crap out of all his wife/girlfriends. Was even charged sometime in the 80's with spousal abuse.
When they said buy low and sell high they didn't mean pot.
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Oooohhhh.....I like what you have to say in this thread!
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