Marlee Matlin faced backlash for abuse claims after William Hurt’s death

Marlee Matlin said against his 2009 disclosure that William physically and sexually injured during their two -year relationship in the 80s intensified after Hurt’s death in 2022.

“On social networks, I had to look at both sides of the conversations,” said Matlin The guardian On Saturday, referring to certain commentators who continued to reduce experiences with Hurt, she detailed in her 2009 memories I will cry laterand others who defended him against this treatment.

“They were trying to define me, and I would have none of this.” She said. “I wanted them to stop, but at the same time, I decided to get away from the conversation.”

Thinking about the speech around the death of Hurt coinciding with his award campaign for the film 2021 CODAMatlin said that she was still happy not to have traveled online.

“Nothing would satisfy these people,” she said, “and why should I do it? I did not trust what would happen if I got involved, because of my past experience to be ignored, to be overlooked, not to get help. But it was interesting to observe, to see the two factions fight for me thinking that they knew me.”

The pair met during the shooting Children of a lesser GodThe drama of 1986 which was the beginnings on the screen of Matlin and transformed it into the youngest winner of the best actress in the history of the Oscars, and the only winner of the deaf people in this category. Matlin previously discussed how at the time of the March 1987 ceremony, Hurt had already started to mistreat it.

Matlin seems shocked but a little shy when he was injured, who gave him the price after winning the best actor of the previous year for Kiss the spider womanCalls then signs his name. But Matlin shared that his shyness came to win legends like Jane Fonda, Sissy Spacek and Kathleen Turner for her debut on the screen, but having to hurt it.

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“I was afraid when I got the stairs to get the Oscar … I was afraid because I knew, in my instinct, that he was not so happy,” she said.

Matlin is the subject of the new documentary Marlee Matlin: more alonewhich was created in January in Sundance and opens in the theaters of the country from the end of June to July.

In this document, Matlin discusses Hurt’s Declaration on his 2009 allegations, which said: “My own memory is that we both apologized and that both did a lot to cure our lives. Of course, I made myself apologize for any pain that I have caused. And I know that we were both grew up. I wish Marlee and his family.”

She also thinks of rehabilitation for drug addiction, on Hurt’s suggestion.

“There were a lot of things that I learned as a detoxification treatment that indicated that things were not correct,” she said. “Physical violence and verbal violence, mental and emotional violence was not correct. I learned that there.”