Andrea Robin Skinnerdaughter of the Canadian Nobel Prize winner Alice Munrohas said that She was raped by her stepfather when she was a childHer mother, upon learning the facts, chose to cover up for her partner instead of protecting her daughter.

Skinner recounted the events in an article published this Sunday in the Canadian newspaper ‘Toronto Star’. She says that she went to the police to report the abuse, and that her stepfather, Gerald Fremlin, was found guilty and sentenced.

At the time, Fremlin was 80 years old, so the sentence was suspended and she was placed on probation for two years. Despite being aware of the facts, Alice Munro maintained their relationship until Fremlin died. in 2013.

“What I wanted was some record of the truth“some public proof that I did not deserve what happened to me,” Skinner wrote to explain why she reported the abuse in 2005, thirty years after it happened.

“I also wanted this story, my story, to be part of the stories people tell about my mother. I never wanted to see another interview, biography or event that didn’t grapple with the reality of what had happened to me, and with the fact that my mother, faced with the truth of what had happened, chose to stay with my attacker and protect him“, Skinner added.

The daughter of the Nobel Prize winner recounts that The abuse began in 1976, when she was nine years old. and visited Fremlin, who was 50. She claims that her mother’s partner got into the bed she was sleeping in and He sexually assaulted her. He also says that Fremlin continually spoke to him about “girls from the neighborhood that he liked.”

A decade later, Skinner decided to tell his mother everything he had suffered. However, Munro did not want to end their relationship with the man who had abused her daughter.

“She said she was told ‘too late’. She loved him too much, and that our misogynistic culture was to blame if it expected her to deny her own needs, sacrifice herself for her children, and make up for the failings of men. He insisted that what had happened was between my stepfather and me.“It had nothing to do with her,” Skinner said.