He performs concerts across the country and has recorded the CDs Farkle and Friends, Singin’ in the Bathtub, and The Sunny Side of the Street. An award-winning actor, he has starred on stage, film, and television. Feeny in both “Boy Meets World” and “Girl Meets World,” as well as “Grey’s Anatomy,” “The Rebels,” “The Graduate,” “Blind Date,” “The Benchwarmers” and “Blades of Glory.John Lithgow is the New York Times bestselling author of I Got Two Dogs Mahalia Mouse Goes to College Marsupial Sue Presents: The Runaway Pancake I’m A Manatee Micawber Marsupial Sue The Remarkable Farkle McBride and Carnival of the Animals. But still.”īoth of Daniels’ parents have passed away: His mother died almost three decades ago, while his dad passed on Sept. Why did my mother have to drag us around, throwing back carpets in her friends’ apartments, demanding that we dance like trained monkeys?… And why was I such a wimp and couldn’t say no? In my defense, I was just a child. She said, ‘I think you’re in mourning for your lost childhood.’ My level of anxiety while reading these pages - some of which literally brought me to tears - finally convinced me of my psychologist’s analysis: I was indeed an abused child. In his book, he also describes his doctor’s conclusion: “Dr. It didn’t occur to us until this analyst said to me, ‘No, you were being abused.’ And I thought, ‘Oh, yeah.’ I’m sure Irene - that’s my mother - didn’t feel that way.”Īlso Read: Jane Fonda Says She Was Raped, Sexually Abused As a Child But we did it and we didn’t feel like we were being abused. And I don’t know how we did it and got any sleep, because it was in the evening and we’d get home at 1 o’clock in the morning. So that’s what we did - many, many of those. … It was during the Depression when kids became very popular performers because they didn’t have to pay them. So they sat out in back or stood out back with the other parents. You were forced onto the stage.’ They didn’t realize the pressure of performance that my sister and I went through. “I had no idea that - I didn’t feel like, ‘Oh my God, I’m being abused’ or anything like that,” he said, explaining that he told his therapist years later, “‘No, my mother wouldn’t.’ And she said, ‘Yes you were. ![]() It is true that my sisters and I were the tool’s of my mother’s ambitions - her ambitions not just for her children, but for herself.”ĭaniels, who also spoke with People, said he was initially in denial about the abuse. It has taken me a long time to agree with this diagnosis. Mother believed, rather firmly, that children get ‘swelled heads’ if they had too much praise. He continued: “Also hurtful was my mother’s failure to say ‘good job’ or ‘well done,’ compliments surely all children need to hear. “It was unhealthy, my doctor said, that I was unable to express my anger, my fears and my dread of knowing what was expected of me in the future.”Īlso Read: 'Girl Meets World' Mounts One Last 'Boy Meets World' Reunion in Series Finale (Exclusive Video) I was shocked to hear such a description - that I had been robbed of a normal childhood, forced to perform and put into situations that I had no control over,” reads an excerpt from Daniels’ book (via People). Estelle Shane, who suggested that I was an abused child. “Many decades later, when I started writing this book, I started seeing a psychologist, Dr. Sometimes, he would work crazy morning hours and on weekends, while children received very little pay.ĭaniels, now 89, was a child performer during the Great Depression in the 1920s and ’30s. Craig, KITT & Many Others,” he discussed how his mother dragged him to auditions at a very young age and forced him to dance, sing and perform on stage. In his book, “There I Go Again: How I Came to Be Mr. ![]() ![]() “Boy Meets World” actor William Daniels has published a new memoir in which he shares that he was abused as a child actor - something he only realized years later.
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