William Hurt Apologizes To Marlee Matlin

As you will recall earlier this week, Marlee Matlin started doing interviews about what is in her new book and she didn't hold anything back. Whether it was the teacher who took her virginity while she was in high school or being molested as a child, it is all in there. Then of course there are the drugs, the lots and lots of drugs actually, and the years of abuse at the hands of William Hurt. The pain is still so intense to her that later this week she said that she is still so scared of him that if he showed up in a room where she is right now that she would run as fast as she could to the nearest bathroom.

All week I kept expecting William Hurt or his people, or someone to at least make the effort in saying the stories were exaggerated or something. While everyone knows the stories are true, they are not exactly common knowledge and so I kept expecting some attempt at damage control by the a-hole. But nope. Instead, yesterday he released a statement that was very short.

"I did and so apologize for any pain I caused."

He did what? She said a whole lot of stuff? I'm assuming he means the beatings, but it really isn't clear from the statement. He could just be apologizing for subjecting us to a string of really whiny movies back in the 80's. Not, the movies themselves really, but just him. It is that look with his eyes that just makes me not like him. He always looks pained. Guess he perfected it by looking at his ex wives and girlfriends after he beat them.

Marlee Matlin Was A Drug Addict And Abused By William Hurt

Last night, I was sitting around re watching the Curling World Championships from Sunday night. In case you have it on your TiVo ready to watch I won't tell you that Scotland beat Canada in a heart breaker. Whooops. Anyway, the thing about Curling is that you don't have to pay really close attention to the television and so I was surfing through the internet and saw that Marlee Matlin had finally come clean and spilled the beans about her life and abusive relationship with William Hurt.

Back in the day, when she was in her teens and Hurt was already a dirty old man he pretty much beat her everyday. This was true even when she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Definitely a beating day. He had to put her in her place. Of course back then she was also doing so much coke and pot that she couldn't even tell the difference between the two and just did them to do them. In her book she says the only person she even knew other than Hurt was her drug dealer.

Marlee has always been a very quiet person and kept everything within. I think the best thing she has ever done was going on Dancing With The Stars because it allowed her to be able to express herself that nothing else ever has, and gave her the power to write this book. Marlee says she and Hurt never spoke about the book and the last time she saw him was 3 years ago, but I guarantee he knew it was coming. I wish it would have come out sooner. Hurt has gone through a string of girlfriends, wives and baby mamas. I'm glad Marlee finally came out and said what happened.