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

[OrchidInTheSun]

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.

I think she’s very brave. People deal with things in different ways. Her way is quite a difficult choice.

Wow.

I couldn’t get passed her picking him up when he was bailed. If it was my husband I would run him over with the car. I actually don’t think that’s an exaggeration.

One of the basics of parenting is not having your child in the same
building as a peodophile.

And then to make money of it! Both of them! A 12 step program for sex addiction! Cause that cancels out the damage done to the children.

Her way is the wrong way and she shouldn't be profiting from it.

Can you elaborate, Mastertomsmum ? How is her way a difficult choice?

I note the not-so-subtle signalling buried in the middle of the piece that it’s perhaps all because of something that may have happened to him as a child.

Sorry, but if you’re complicit in the abuse of children the buck has to stop with you - you don’t get any hint of a pass if you were abused yourself. That’s so offensive in what it implies about other survivors, too.

If she were single then it would only be herself she was committing to this but her children are going to have to live with it because of her choice.

Majority of replies show how difficult the choice is. It’s not a choice most of us think we would make.

I would not want to agree with her choices but would defend her right to make them.

I'm retracting my initial comment where I called her stupid. She isn't stupid, she's calculating and manipulative.

I've looked at the NYT, The Times and the DM. The DM reported it as a news story but the other 2 made it a featured article and interview all about her. I bet she has been peddling her ass (and yes I do mean to be offensive by that choice of words) round all the liberal media outlets.

I would not want to agree with her choices but would defend her right to make them

Why?

I utterly condemn her.

Choice 1 - standing by your marriage: Ok, fair enough, I would not want that man breathing the same airspace as me, but each to their own;

Choice 2 - Participating in high profile interviews in a major publication; making yourself out to be, in a breathy and fit for Hollywood dramatic account of events, a modern day saint; and making out that you and your admitted paedophile husband are the victims of this scenario, whilst expressing not a single thought for the children abused in the pornography: No, not a choice a decent person would make. Not someone anyone should feel sorry for. Nobody is forced to give a high profile interview. But then this is a publicity tour for.....

Choice 3 - Turning "man caught watching children being raped and sexually abused" into "chance to revive my flagging career in sometimes hilarious, bitter sweet, one woman show, ta daaaa!". No decent person would make this choice either.

And I am going to make this point again, which is the same point I make every time one of those fucking sportsmen rapes a non consenting, unconscious woman and lots of men and women act as their apologists: would you feel sorry for them if their victim was male?

If you look at the most popular comments below the line they're as horrified as we are here.

She can write 12 plays, but she will never reconcile the irreconcilable. He is a monster and she has chosen for her children to live with him. It's the least brave thing she could have done.

You say 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., DeloresJaneUmbridge.

This seems unlikely, given that the wretched man is now making a documentary about porn - i.e excusing himself as a victim of powerful external forces.

Actually, good point Pawn . It's one thing for you to stand by your man but:

Choice 4 - Expose your children to living with an admitted paedophile: no decent person would do this.

They are both trying to position themselves as victims of pornography

I agree.

To be fair, her career choices are probably limited because of her decision to stay with her husband. This is her attempt to make as much money as she can while remaining as an actor.

The talk of shame, sex addiction and the destructive power of pornography seem to be about making him a victim.

1. Standing by your man. No, I couldn't but some people do and perhaps there are reasons that are hinted at that we know nothing about. Still can't think of something that wouldn't end the relationship.

1. Working on the issue, him by addressing what led him to do it, them having therapy - brilliant. Preventing him going any further.

1. Them using their social network in TV/Hollywood to publicize the work of whatever the US equivalent of the Lucy Faithful Foundation is - again brilliant - but without any profit for themselves.

1. Turning it into a business so essentially she is making money from the fact her husband watched images of child abuse - unbelievably sick

I bet he'll have to watch a lot of porn, to make that documentary about porn.

I can’t defend her right to make the choice to stay. This is entirely different than staying through infidelity, addiction, or financial impropriety, or even most criminal behavior.

He victimized children and she kept those children living in his home. Horrible fathers are often awarded at least partial custody, but a child pornography conviction should be a slam dunk case for severing parental rights. I can only speculate that his victims were younger than their children at the time of discovery.

I wonder what their family life will be like going forward. Will their risk children bringing the grandchildren around?

“Those children” was supposed to be “their children”

I can't support or defend women who choose abusive men over children, or this public attempt to normalise pedophilia.

I live in Mexico and we cannot let my dgd out of our sight because of the number of children being stolen off the streets to feed this industry.

Though I can't imagine anything worse than being one of the stolen children, this is also affecting the quality of life of millions of children whose freedom is being curtailed for their own protection.

The very idea that the people paying for all this think they are the victims is so gross.

I don't understand why their children were not removed.

Says a lot about her particular moral code. Or absence of one.

Amazed anyone thinks it's a tough choice: living with a convicted paedophile or not living with a convicted paedophile. Hmm...let me think. Tough one

What did I just read? Where is the concern and compassion for the children abused in those films? Almost every sentence began with I..
How on earth could she be laughing and singing with her daughter around a situation involving a book a sex addiction? So much disconnection. What a huge crock of shit.

Sorry, should have read “ singing and laughing about a book regarding sex addiction”..