Gerald Imes & Mo’Nique Child Molestation Sexual Abuse Scandal
Oscar –winning actress Mo’Nique’s estranged brother Gerald Imes finally confessed he sexually molested his sister for years, starting when she was only seven years old, and publicly apologized to her on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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Gerald claimed his sister was usually sleeping when it happened and he was doing drugs to mask his own pain since he had also been abused as a child. Mo’Nique was abused from the age of 7 till she was 11 and only came forward and told her parents at the age of 15 after a violent incident between her and her bother.
“I’m sorry, Mo’Nique. I’m sorry,” Imes said on The Oprah Winfrey Show. “I betrayed everybody’s trust. I broke that trust. I broke that bond.”
“I started using cocaine, heroin, alcohol at the age of 11,” he told Winfrey. “I used these drugs to hide my own pain, to hide my own fears … The drugs allowed me and afforded me the opportunity to hurt my sister.”
“I can only hope by coming forth today … that somewhere down the line … we can come back together as siblings,” he said. “I understand your pain. I truly think, let’s share this together and move on.”
Gerald, who inspired the actress to play the brutal mother in her movie “Precious”, spent more than twelve years in jail for molesting another girl. Mo’Nique refused to appear on Oprah or respond to her brother’s public apology, but she allowed her story to be discussed in the show to help other families going through the same thing.
Mo’Nique is reportedly pretty upset that her brother did not tell the whole story and lied. “She was particularly upset that Gerald lied to Oprah that he molested her while she was sleeping because she was wide awake and scared of him,” a source divulged. “Also, she is angry that he did not get any help or enter a rehab and she does not trust him around children.”
The 42 year-old actress is not willing to appear on Oprah to discuss this situation again. And Gerald’s confession and apology was still not enough to unite the family. A source said, “If anything it has made the situation worse between Mo’Nique and her family and she doesn’t know if she will ever speak to them again now.”
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