Actor Alan Cumming has spoken out about suffering from “violent” abuse as a child at the hands of his father, who he says was also verbally and emotionally abusive to him. The star said that being raised in this environment left him feeling “powerless.”
The “alan cumming children” is a topic that has been circulating the internet for some time. The actor, Alan Cumming, had written about his experience of abuse from his father in an essay he wrote for The New York Times.
Cumming stated he felt ‘powerless’ in his father’s hands (Picture: Rex Features)
Alan Cumming has spoken up about how he felt ‘powerless’ as a youngster as a result of his father’s violence.
The Goldeneye star grew up in Aberfeldy, Perthshire, with his brother on the Panmure Estate, where his father worked as a chief forester.
However, the actor’s upbringing was not a pleasant one, as he was cruelly tortured by his father.
‘My father didn’t crush my spirit,’ Cumming told Lauren Laverne on Desert Island Discs.
‘I believe that the abilities required to cope with an adult who is assaulting you while you are helpless are wonderful traits for an actor.
‘Listening, acting as if you don’t feel what you’re experiencing, and not displaying fear.’
The Emma actor had a DNA test to confirm that he was his father’s biological son (Getty Images). )
‘I’ve always known that I was going to come out and live the life I wanted to live.’ Today, several of the folks on this playlist assisted me.’
The X-Men actor went on to say that the assault was “extremely brutal” and that he felt “fear for [his] life” at moments, thinking, “Oh my God, I’m going to die here.”
Another tragic discovery from the 57-year-old is that his father did not think the actor was his actual son, which Cumming only found out when he reconnected with him soon before shooting his episode of Who Do You Think You Are? after almost 20 years apart.
Cumming used a DNA test to dispute his father’s allegations.
‘The weird thing is, none of it was real,’ the Emma actress said.
‘It was all made up by him.’ Because I didn’t believe him, I had to do a DNA test, and I had to call my father and inform him – and disappoint him – that I was his son.
This weekend’s installment of Desert Island Discs features Cumming (Picture: Getty Images)
‘I knew he was dying as the phone conversation ended.’ He had cancer and other issues.
‘I told him I felt he was a coward because I had gone to find out the truth – and (he) had used a fallacy that he had believed as a pretext to mistreat me for all these years,’ I said.
‘So I said all I could possibly want to say to him, and I went to say, “OK, I have to leave now, take care, I’ll speak to you” – and I said, “No, I won’t, I honestly won’t talk to you again – but take care,” the Scottish actor added.
‘So I also said my goodbyes to him in that way.’
Cumming claimed that as he put the phone down, he realized he was in full drag since he was filming a transvestite in South Africa.
‘It was simply beautiful,’ he remarked.
‘I imagined that if my father saw me right now, it would be his greatest nightmare.’ It’s not anything I expected to have to go through.’
On Sunday at 11 a.m., Radio 4 and Sounds will broadcast Desert Island Discs.
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