"Beaten with a billiard cue until I was covered in blood"… Daughter reveals abuse by stepmother: "Dad turned a blind eye" [Lee Ho-sun's Counseling Office] [Star TV]

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A woman revealed that she suffered severe abuse from her stepmother during her childhood, but her father ignored it.

In an episode of the tvN STORY variety show "Lee Ho-sun's Counseling Office" aired on the 6th, a daughter shared her story of being abused by her stepmother after her father remarried when she was young.

On this day, the daughter recalled, "When I was little, my dad remarried, and I was severely beaten by my stepmother." She added, "Grabbing me by the hair was standard, and when she got angry, she threw everything around her. Everything nearby became a weapon."

In particular, she revealed that she was beaten with a billiard cue starting from the third or fourth grade of elementary school, shocking viewers. The daughter said, "What I remember is being beaten while doing push-ups," adding, "My buttocks were so bloody and swollen that I couldn't even lie down."

The greater wound was her father's indifference. The daughter stated that her father avoided the situation every time she was severely scolded. She said, "I was so wronged that I cried and told him how hard it was, but my dad said, 'Mom is probably doing it out of jealousy. She must feel like a woman toward you,' and 'Just try to keep Mom happy.'"

She further claimed that she even heard her father say things like, "You have Cinderella syndrome," and "You are just pretending to be pitiful." The daughter expressed the sense of betrayal she felt at the time, saying, "He did not take my side without a single word of warm empathy," adding, "I even wondered if my dad was a sociopath."

In Gyo-jin asked whether the stepmother had behaved the same way toward her other siblings. In response, the daughter said that she had not, explaining that particularly harsh behavior was directed at the eldest and second children, who were not her biological children.

The daughter also protected her younger siblings so they would not go through the same experience as her. She said, "Since I grew up being beaten, I defended my third and fourth siblings," adding that her second sibling is grateful for this, and her twin siblings tell her, "You are like a mother to us."

She added that after becoming a high school student, the physical beatings decreased, but conflicts continued as the stepmother yelled at her.

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