seat. everything s wonderful. because like many others in this world and you know probably many of them yourself, who have had just as tough difficulty, i you know, if you have good people around, you can make a difference and get out of that cycle. the most extraordinary thing is until a couple of weeks before this book came out, your mother knew nothing about any of this. yeah. and she got married four times. i think you moved houses 17 times in 12 years? the time it was 18. yeah. extraordinary upbringing in many ways. you were physically abused by two stepfathers. and then you were sexually abused by a camp counselor. none of this you ever stay with used with your mother ever discuss wednesday your mother until literally a few months ago. she obviously knew about the stepfathers, we lived together, my sister, my mom, and me they were being violated, too. they were right there. the sexual abuse listen, when you re ten years old and you try to tell your paren
there s also sustained physical abuse with all these guys that came and went there were two. two stepfathers, yeah. how bad was that? it was well, obviously, you read the book. it was intense. i remember when i was just 6 years old, i remember waking up, and my mom was screaming, and my stepfather was hitting her. and i came to her rescue. i was in my pajamas. i remember grabbing his leg and biting it on the inside and him coming down and pummelling me. and pushing me away. then i just would come right back and fortunately we lived in a duplex, and the people upstairs heard and called the police. that was obviously husband number two. and then husband number four, it was a constant battle. physical battle? yeah, yeah. physical, mental. punching you? yeah. we d be banging on each other. got to a point when i was older and getting as you pointed out by your son s you get physically aware and more confident physically. finally i said, you do this again, and you k
mother knew nothing about any of this. yeah. and she got married four times. i think you moved houses 17 times in 12 years? the time it was 18. yeah. extraordinary upbringing in many ways. you were physically abused by two stepfathers. and then you were sexually abused by a camp counselor. none of this you ever stay with used with your mother ever discuss wednesday your mother until literally a few months ago. she obviously knew about the stepfathers, we lived together, my sister, my mom, and me they were being violated, too. they were right there. the sexual abuse listen, when you re ten years old and you try to tell your parents, first of all, that the perpetrator says, you know, no one will believe you. secondly, if you try to tell or find out you re telling, i ll hurt you, or kill you, and i make sure i hurt your parents, too. there s that control thing. my mom actually as we ve been she s obviously read it since, as we ve been talking about it, she said
little bit, yeah. little bit. once again, i have a wonderful family. i have a job to do, and i ve moved on. and if i can help anybody who s in similar circumstances to fight back and then also move forward with their lives and tell somebody, you know, my mistake if there was one is that i didn t tell my mom or somebody at the camp in retrospect. but once you pass that and you keep moving on and on and on, you obviously focus on different things. you just move on with life. the sexual abuse was one thing, obviously pretty scarring for you. there s also sustained physical abuse with all these guys that came and went there were two. two stepfathers, yeah. how bad was that? it was well, obviously, you read the book. it was intense. i remember when i was just 6 years old, i remember waking up, and my mom was screaming, and my stepfather was hitting her. and i came to her rescue. i was in my pajamas. i remember grabbing his leg and biting it on the inside and him
speaking with 60 minutes last night, brown recalled being 6 years old and jumping to his mother s defense as one of his stepfathers beat her. do you think you have innate resilience. as a result of what i ve gone through, it makes me tougher, absolutely. things roll off your back more easily. absolutely. because of your life? yes. what i m getting the crap beat out of me outside in the political spectrum, i m like, this is nothing. bring it. let s go. next. there s an incredible scene in the book, you re 6 years old and jump to your mother s defense. yes. i was in bed and i heard her screaming and there was fighting down in the basement area. i remember him hitting her and pretty, you know, just pounding on her. i remember grabbing his leg and biting it, right on the inside of his thigh. with your teeth? with my teeth. just pounding, because i wouldn t let go. he was trying to shake me off