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Actress feted for play celebrating her bravery in staying with her paedophile husband

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OrchidInTheSun · 19/04/2019 12:12

This is sickening: www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/theater/maddie-corman-accidentally-brave.html

There's another interview in the Times too. All about how awful it's been for her and zero concern for the children who were raped for her husband's sexual pleasure.

Ben Stiller is gushing on twitter.

Grim.

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LassOfFyvie · 19/04/2019 12:17

I saw this reported elsewhere. She is an idiot and a hypocrite. If she were a friend of mine I would drop her. (Obviously her husband would be dropped too)

TurquoiseLagoon · 19/04/2019 12:22

That's disgusting

ArabellaDoreenFig · 19/04/2019 12:22

Is this the new Brave and Stunning ?

Wise women have been saying this for years, the likes of PIE etc seem to try and legitimise themselves every generation or so, we must make sure we keep pushing back and keep pushing forward laws, legislation and policies which keep children safe.

Some of those comments are bloody grim too.

Drogosnextwife · 19/04/2019 12:23

She's not brave in the slightest, she is a weak woman, and an enabler. Disgusting.

ArabellaDoreenFig · 19/04/2019 12:23

*comments on the article page - not here!

callmekalinda · 19/04/2019 12:27

Ugh. One of his "virtues" is that he didn't flirt with her friends. Yes, love, that's because he prefers under age girls.

Not a single bit of worry or anxiety about the child victims filmed in that pornography. All the worry is about her and him and her kids and what people might think of them.

Paedo husband is now making a film about the destructive force of pornography. No doubt with the principle victims of the industry being the poor men like him exposed as being users and having their poor little lives destroyed by it.

NellieEllie · 19/04/2019 12:28

If she wants to stay by him, fine. But to make a play about getting through it, and to be lauded for being “brave” - in fact for both of them to be called “brave” is vile. Just how would you explain to a victim, that a guy who got off on seeing them being raped is “brave” and wonderful?. He got caught. He didn’t come clean. He got caught.He didn’t get imprisoned. He was lucky.
This is a sort of vile romanticism of mea culpa. Admitting you’re a pervert does not make you a great person.
Ben Stiller is a twat.

DeloresJaneUmbridge · 19/04/2019 12:29

I feel sorry for her. She’s trying desperately to cling on to her life and her family....the one she thought she had.
The fact she’s written it down and it’s become the subject of a one woman show is if anything likely to bring more problems.

I would hope that as part of whatever programme he did there was work on confronting what he’d done and the fact that real children were abused for his sick kick.

LassOfFyvie · 19/04/2019 12:33

There are some good comments

I miss the days when someone who committed an atrocious, unforgivable act had the decency to drop out of sight and be heard no more. Without having the money and background of this family what happens to ordinary families is not what is described in this narcissist fest of an article. As other commenters have noted, the real tragedy lies in the fact that child porn exists. How Corman could not have intuited the negative blowback on her play indicates zero self-awareness or a shameless desire to cash in and rehabilitate her family’s name at the same time. Here’s a better idea for a storyline: donate all your money to a child abuse prevention charity. Then move to dust blown town on the ragged edge of nowhere, register your husband, as required by law, make a life from scratch and get back to us in twenty years

And

As the victim of a pedophile, I was hoping that her accidental bravery was that she left him and raised her kids on her own.

One particular idiot, called Ella was making out he'd only been looking at images and hadn't done anything.

There is certainly a difference in acting upon your attraction but villifying people who are attracted to children like Alexander

Thankfully someone took Ella to task.

He did act on his attraction. He just farmed out the actual obtaining a child and sexually abusing it to others, while he paid to watch. And he made those children's abuse profitable, providing further incentive for obtaining more children for further profit. The only reason that he stopped the abuse, or confessed to his wife or sought treatment is because he got arrested

callmekalinda · 19/04/2019 12:34

I don't feel sorry for her. She's turned the victimhood of real children into a commodity to further her own career and profile. She's turned herself into the angel in this scenario.

LassOfFyvie · 19/04/2019 12:34

I feel sorry for her

I don't. She is making capital out of "being brave" and standing by him.

LassOfFyvie · 19/04/2019 12:35

callmekalinda very well put.

callmekalinda · 19/04/2019 12:37

Cross post with Lass , haven't read the comments yet, but the one you've posted just about sums it up for me.

LassOfFyvie · 19/04/2019 12:37

callmekalinda

I second all your posts.

Paedo husband is now making a film about the destructive force of pornography

Irony meter just exploded.

Bookworm4 · 19/04/2019 12:39

And she had an absolute nerve to speak out against someone regards #metoo
She's a disgusting hypocrite, I hope her kids grow up and walk away.

DantesInferno · 19/04/2019 12:45

i was just copying ready to paste exactly the same comments as you @LassOfFyvie

TinselAngel · 19/04/2019 12:50

Her husband, best known for his work on “Law & Order,” is now producing a documentary about the destructive forces of pornography.

Fucking hell, the sheer brass neck of the man. Shock

littlbrowndog · 19/04/2019 12:56

So her husband paid to watch a child being abused. Oh ffs

How can she even bear to be in the same room as him. Let alone to stay married to him

Yuck yuck yuck how fucked up is that
It would be in my mind for ever and just looking at him would fill me with disgust

Hearhere · 19/04/2019 13:01

I think she really has overplayed her hand here

Bluestitch · 19/04/2019 13:03

Urgh the amount of celebs gushing over her on twitter is grim. Especially people like Mariska Hargitay who does loads of work with abuse survivors and should know better.

callmekalinda · 19/04/2019 13:04

Just read that article again. The sheer narcissism of this woman and her husband is breathtaking. The description of her finding out and subsequent reaction all read like the plot of a bad made for TV movie. And it's all framed as her and him being the victims of something bad happening, like he is a passive player in the whole thing.

So one thing I am guessing is that the pornography he was watching involved female children not male ones. I wonder if she would have been quite so forgiving if her husband had been exposed for preferring little boys. Pretty easy to dismiss it as "what men do" when it's girls who are the victims.

Hearhere · 19/04/2019 13:07

They are both trying to position themselves as victims of pornography

OrchidInTheSun · 19/04/2019 13:20

I wonder whether their children will be quite so pleased that their family moved away from the town where their dad was convicted, only for their mum for their mum to make a play all about it?

Seems kind of pointless changing schools when your parents are determined to frame themselves as victims.

Poor kids. If I were her, I'd be going over and over my daughter's childhood and wondering.

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TinselAngel · 19/04/2019 13:22

You could understand it if she thought he didn't do it, but not when he's admitted it.

LassOfFyvie · 19/04/2019 13:26

The comments on The Daily Mail site are, as can safely be predicted in this type of case, wholly condemning her. Several make the point that she commented she was sure he'd never touched their children- whilst nowhere did she express any concern for the children he watched being abused.

There is an apologist called Dave on the Times site but several posters there have pointed out there is no such thing as "child porn". He was paying to watch children being raped.

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