Marlee Matlin Claims William Hurt Abused Her In “I’ll Scream Later”
Oscar winner Marlee Matlin, best known for her role in “Children of a Lesser God”, describes her troubled relationship fellow co-star William Hurt and reveals the abuse she was subjected to while they were together in her new book titled “I’ll Scream Later.”
“I was afraid. I was always afraid… of him,” Matlin told Access Hollywood’s Nancy O’Dell. “But I loved him. I did. Or maybe I thought I did. But look, I was 19, he was 35.”
“I always had fresh bruises everyday,” the actress revealed. “And if I had a split lip, or if… I mean, there were a lot of things that happened that were not pleasant.”
Marlee also claimed William raped her but she was too drugged (cocaine and pot) and afraid to leave him, so that’s why she never filed charges against him. The first deaf actress to win an Oscar hasn’t seen her abuser in a long time.
“No, not at the time. I was so wrapped up in his world and my drugs. 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,” Matlin explained.
“I could say that I understand how women are afraid to leave an abusive relationship,” she continued. “They should, but at the same time, I understand how they don’t know how.”
The 43 year-old actress finally decided to break the silence, but she says she didn’t talk with William Hurt about him being a central part in her book and exposing their relationship. “Really, I had nothing to say to him. He knows what happened, I know what happened. We both were there,” Matlin said.
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Women are always victims, even when she claims to be raped when she was completely stoned, and her only friend was a drug dealer… Who cares about to prove it? She’s an old deaf woman, she can’t lie to sell books, we all know that.
She forgot to say she was in a relationship with a 35 year old guy because he had money to finance the cocaine and pot. Poor little girl, a 19 year old girl is so innocent, like a 12 year old child.
I really hope he will sue her.
Thank you Hank!! I empathize with William When I was 39 I had a relationship with a girl that was 18, which is a few year more the William Hurt’s relationship but still the same scenario ,none of it was true, but I was never given the opportunity to prove it. She was after all, a female and lot younger I was which made her accusations fact, Regardless of the fact that even her own father and mother had said that she was a liar and had a bad temper. She brought violence her drugs into my world and it destroyed my world and my daughters that I was raising, and also had a damaging affect on a child that she and I had together. Her lies not only destroyed my world they resulted in people networking over the Internet, primarily women, and recruiting people to literally physically damage me. This started in 1996 and has been going on unrelentingly since that time. somewhere in this time some “bright” people came up with some chemical compound that absorbs very slowly into the skin and then causes severe nerve damage.They believe that the have gotten away with this because what ever it is that this never ending story says that I was supposed to have done justifes it. My daughter that I raised could and would testify to what really happened, but for some reason her word does not count. These chemicals were sprayed into my parent’s hue in an area of the house that I rented from my mother.was supposed to keep me out of her house. My mother was with me in that part of the house after it had been sprayed. I got very sick. She was 80 at the time. After a very excruciatingly painful month in he hospital she died. poison had killed her. They got away with it. I expatriated to Europe to escape this torment but . again through the Internet, this ..game followed me and new people were recruited to damage me. I am now stuck in a hotel room in Barcelona Spain called Marvi. I have been here for months. I am bed ridden and am dying.I am in incredible pain. I cannot get any help because these people have grown into such large numbers that they re able to discourage, even threaten anyone that tries to help me. None of these people ever knew me. But, they .. ARE… WOMEN!!..so they know the truth and have the right to exact any punishment or torment that they agree on. If you read this pass it on please..