Sir Patrick Stewart sheds light on his violent Yorkshire childhood and how he has undergone 30 years of therapy to come to terms with it in his new memoir. Hannah Stephenson reports.
Sir Patrick Stewart, Shakespearean actor and king of the Star Trek and X-Men franchises, says that at 83 he is starting to tick things off. “Riding a bicycle is no longer a good idea for me. 'I try to exercise as much as I can. I also try very hard to spend as much time as I can with friends, particularly my Star Trek friends, because I love them all and we see one another as often as we can.
“He was never given treatment for his PTSD and I spoke to an authority on this, on soldiers and how they deal with these horrifying experiences, and they are very disturbed by it. “I felt responsible for my father, which may sound crazy – a seven-year-old boy talking about a man in his mid-40s, but that’s how children often do react to situations like this.
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