Tyler Perry says that despite enduring so much, he couldn't come clean to the world until his mother, Willy Maxine Perry, passed away. "She suffered so much horror in her life — surviving breast cancer, the abuse from my father, the belittling, the beatings. And I just could not be a source of pain," he said about why he chose to stay quiet until the time was right. "I knew if I spoke about this, that she would be hurt. So I didn't. ... I feel this tremendous sense of, 'Now it's time for me to take care of me and get some of this stuff out of me and be free from it.'"
And despite Perry's traumatic history with his father, the successful actor has forgiven him, buying him a mansion in Louisiana and even sending him a monthly paycheck. But still, his father has shown no remorse for his actions. "He sends a message through my brother saying, 'If I had beat your a** one more time, you probably would have been Barack Obama,'" Perry said.
As for the sexual abuse, Perry has worked on undoing the damage others have caused. "What I started to do is untie the strings and chase them down to where they came from," Perry said. "And I was able to free myself and understand that even though these things happened to me, it was not me."
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