Alice Munro knew my stepfather was abusive to me when I was a child according to Nobel laureate’s daughter.

Andrea Robin Skinner says her stepfather sexually assaulted and physically abused her at the age of eight years old. Her mother, however, says she loved him too much and refused to let him go.

A child of Nobel prize winner Alice Munro , Andrea Robin Skinner, has said that her stepfather allegedly had a sexual relationship with her when she was a young girl, in addition to claiming that the mother remained with him, even after he confessed the abuse.

Skinner revealed the allegations in a story and essay that appeared in Canadian publication Toronto Star on the weekend. She detailed how she was assaulted by her father’s son, Gerald Fremlin, began sexually attacking her in 1976, when she was only nine years older, and she was in her 50s.

She says she believes that Fremlin had the ability to climb into a sleeping spot at her mother’s home at Clinton, Ontario, and sexually assaulted her. Skinner confessed to her father, James Munro, whom she claims did not divulge the truth to Munro.

Then, over the years following, Skinner says Fremlin propositioned her, made a pose to her and “told me about the little girls in the neighbourhood he liked”. Skinner said she stopped being attacked by him as she grew older, but she started to suffer from insomnia, migraines and bulimia, and put it down to the violent incident.

In 2005, the date was, and Skinner surrendered himself to officers. Fremlin who was in his 80s at the time was charged with indecent assault against Skinner and admitted to guilt. He was granted an indefinite suspension as well as two years probation. Munro continued to reside together with Fremlin up to his demise in 2013.

Munro is widely believed as one of the greatest short-story writers of all time. He who was given with the Nobel prize for literature in 2013. He passed away in September, aged 92.

Skinner said that she first told her mom about the abuse she had suffered in 1992, around the point she was in her teens. She began writing letters to her mom following the time when Munro made a comment on the character in a book that was sexually assaulted by her stepfather.

However, Skinner said that Munro “reacted exactly as I had feared she would, as if she had learned of an infidelity”.

Munro briefly resigned Fremlin who admitted in his letters that he had been abused however said the misconduct was attributable to Skinner. “If the worst comes to worst I intend to go public,” Munro wrote, in line with Skinner. “I am going to publish some of my photos including some from my home close to Ottawa that are very well-written … the most memorable one is of Andrea in my shorts with no bottoms. “

“She said that she had been ‘told too late,’ … she loved him too much, and that our misogynistic culture was to blame if I expected her to deny her own needs, sacrifice for her children and make up for the failings of men,” Skinner wrote. “She was insistent that it was all due to my stepfather and my. It was not connected to her.

“I … was myself overwhelmed by the feelings she felt of grieved. Her father was the one who compelled us to hide the truth in order to cause her to feel embarrassed. Then she spoke with me about children she was able to form “friendships with,” highlighting her belief that she a person, was being fooled. Did she realise that she was speaking to a victim and that it was me that I was? not, which I believe she did, then it wasn’t something I believed. “

Skinner took her children members from her in 2002 following a conversation with Munro she wouldn’t allow Fremlin near the children of her. After listening to an interview where Munro was adamant about the couple’s union, Skinner was able to submit Fremlin’s letters to police in 2005.

“He described my nine-year-old self as a ‘homewrecker,'” she wrote, pointing out that she said he was invading her bedroom “for sexual adventure”.

“The silence continued” even after Fremlin’s death, Skinner wrote, due to the fame of her mom.

“I also wanted this story, my story, to become part of the stories people tell about my mother,” she wrote. “I have never wanted to read another biography, interview or other event that didn’t grapple with the reality of what been my experience, and the truth that my mother confronted by the reality of what happened she chose to stay with and defend my victim. “