Guardian Australia · Patrick Stewart

‘His honesty gave courage to survivors’: domestic abuse charities praise Patrick Stewart’s legacy

· By Rachel Hall
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Actor first shared his childhood experiences as part of Amnesty International campaign and became Refuge ambassadorWhen Patrick Stewart was growing up in the 1940s, he witnessed how, after his father beat his mother, home doctors and ambulance workers would tell her: “You must have done something to provoke him.”Ste…

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