MO’NIQUE’S PARENTS UPSET SHE WENT PUBLIC WITH FAMILY SEX SHAME
MO’NIQUE’s parents addressed the family’s darkest hour on TV show OPRAH o n Monday (19Apr10), revealing they wished their daughter had come to them with her plans to go public about her child molestation hell.
The Oscar winner exposed her brother Gerald as a teenage sexual predato r last year (09) when she told the media how she tapped into the mind of cruel Mary Jones for her role in Precious, and the big reveal opened up a 30-year-old nightmare for her folks Alice and Steven Imes.
Appearing with their disgraced son, who confessed to inappropriate beha viour with his sister when he was 13 and she was eight, the Imeses told O prah they thought the matter had been addressed when they temporarily ask ed Gerald to leave the family home after Mo’Nique told them her older bro ther had "tried to lay on top of me" when she was 15.
Alice Imes said, "I felt hurt for both of my kids… I let her (Mo’Niqu e) know that I believed her. I said, ‘Mo’Nique, I understand you don’t wa nna go back (to) when it (sexual assault) was. Do you feel like, to clear yourself, you need to go and we can talk to someone other than myself, t hat you can cleanse and let this out.’ She said, ‘No mom, I’m fine; I jus t want to let you know that this happened.’" Imes now regrets not revisiting the sexual assault with her daughter af ter banished Gerald returned to the family home - but she was hurt when M o’Nique decided to go public with the family’s secret on national TV.
She added, "We have always been a close family… I wasn’t upset, but m y thought was, ‘As a family such as we were, this is something I felt tha t should have been discussed first privately within the family. Now, if y ou wanna tell the world, but give us a chance (sic).
"My question is, ‘You are older now, we are older now, maybe as a famil y we can better understand what help was really needed.’ "I only hope, with doing this, this can cleanse her hurt." Imes also revealed she and her daughter hadn’t spoken for more than two years, and that Mo’Nique had "separated herself" from the family over an other matter.
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