As a child, the actor regularly saw his father hit his mother. Here he describes how the horrors of his childhood remained with him in his adult life.

Patrick Stewart has written a piece for The Guardian. If you know who Patrick Stewart is without being reminded or told, you will want to read it. I’ve long admired him as an actor on both stage and screen. Broke my heart to read about his childhood, but it explains some of what I have seen in his acting. It’s definitely something worth reading, maybe even if you don’t know who Patrick Stewart is.