My stepfather abused me over weight: Chrissy Metz
Actor Chrissy Metz has opened up about her life in a new memoir, This Is Me, where she details facing physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her stepfather.
The 37-year-old, who grew up in poverty, shot to fame with her portrayal of Kate Pearson on the hit TV show.
The actor said when she was 8 years old, her father left her mother Denise to raise Chrissy and her two elder siblings — Monica and Philip. Her mother had another baby with a boyfriend before she met their future stepfather, Trigger. “My mom married Trigger at the courthouse. Soon she was pregnant again, with Abigail. Trigger loved his two biological children, but, me, not so much. My mother was always at work, so she
METZ’S STEPFATHER, TRIGGER, HAD SHOVED HER AND PUNCHED HER ARM FOR HER OBESITY
didn’t see how he treated me. My body seemed to offend him, but he couldn’t help but stare, when I was eating. He joked about putting a lock on the refrigerator. We had lived with a lack of food for so long that when it was there, I ate it before it was gone,” she writes.
Scared of her stepfather’s scrutiny, the actor said she started to hide what she ate. She further writes, “I’d get up in the middle of the night and eat. I’d sneak food to eat in the bathroom. I don’t remember why Trigger hit me the first time. He never punched my face, just my body — the thing that offended him so much. He shoved me, punched my arm and slapped me. I remember being on the kitchen floor after he knocked me over, and I was begging to know what I did. He shoved me hard with his foot.”
Metz said as she entered her teens, the abuse became worse and her stepfather would often ask her to weigh herself and then ridicule her. “When I was 14, he began weighing me. He’d get the scale and yell. ‘This is what you need to know’.” Metz said she felt conflicted about hating her stepfather as she really loved him. Trigger eventually felt bad about the way he treated Metz and they are now in a positive place.