Craig Revel Horwood opens up on childhood abuse at hands of father: 'I thought I'd be killed'ITV
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00:00We couldn't bring people home from school.
00:02We were just too scared, and we were like little slaves.
00:05Sorry to interrupt you, Craig, but when you went to school,
00:08did you tell anyone at school? No.
00:10You didn't tell anyone outside the family at all? No, I kept it a secret.
00:15I kept his drinking a secret.
00:17Was that because you were frightened of the repercussions for you,
00:21or you were ashamed of it? Well, if he ever found out,
00:24I thought I'd be killed. Oh, wow.
00:26You know, I mean, it was real, proper abuse,
00:30and it was horrible to come home to from school.
00:34It got worse when he left the Navy and didn't have a job.
00:38Of course. Then he was a functioning alcoholic for a long time,
00:43and then he went to AA, and for four years he was completely sober,
00:48and that was the best I'd seen him ever.
00:51And then he went back to drinking, and it was the drinking that killed him.