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General Hospital Spoilers – Vanessa Marcil Reveals What She & Her Family Experienced
On Instagram, she shared a picture of her parents and wrote about her past. “Pete Ortiz Patricia Marcil before my mom started having her natural blonde hair again,” begins Marcil. “I am the youngest of 4 w 6 years 2 a decades age difference so my older siblings grew up with interracial marriage not being LEGAL. Interracial marriage only became legal in 1967 w some not happy about it, especially in certain neighborhoods.”
She continues by saying, “I was raised in a gang & drug-infested neighborhood where violence and sexual abuse were the daily norms inside & outside the home. At school, I was beaten. A girl gang used to shove my head inside of my locker beat me up in the back of the bus & hold my head in the toilet. Nothing was ever done.”
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GH Spoilers – Vanessa Marcil Opens Up About The Past
Vanessa went on to say, “While my son was NEVER left alone with even certain family members or a nanny, when I was a kid it was normal to be left alone with everyone & we certainly didn’t have nannies. However, my grandma was a maid & nanny 2 many families she worked for & my father worked the fields until he learned a craft in order to move up to being…a contractor.”
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“To say that I felt the difference in how we were treated if I went somewhere with my dad compared to with my mom, would be an understatement. Mom grew up without a father or a mother and poorer than my father. She certainly wasn’t privileged in a class sense but we were treated differently simply because of the way she looks. That’s the part of white privilege that some people that I’ve spoken to aren’t understanding and I can understand why.”
General Hospital Spoilers – Vanessa Marcil Is Sharing Her Past Experiences With Others
“If something has never touched YOU or your family,” adds Marcil, “you may not understand it. These are the conversations that are our duty to research & to have with our children.”
“In my family, we were taught not 2discuss the painful things until it explodes. Then just walk out or stop talking to someone you love for years at a time. Deep patterns we pass on. We had joyful times growing up as well as cooking in our family but it always seeped in violence, drugs & sexual abuse.”
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“We didn’t realize at the time that we didn’t have to live that way. You just accepted it rather than ‘be alone’. At 18, before I ever knew it was even a possibility 2 be an actor 4 a living I legally changed my name. Interesting choice? Tell me abt ur life… #ImWithYou.”
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Wow. She has a strong story.
1970's childhood. Hollywood normalized chauvinist demoralization of women. Girls were plopped in front of the tv early on and expected to accept that our purpose was to belong to a man. Regarding family lifestyle, it took being invited to slumber parties as a child to realize just how dysfunctional home-life truly was. My Uncle plays games down on the floor with us kids?! He doesn't guzzle whiskey all night? Kids walked on eggshells. So many kids hid their experiences from their friends. Except to a rare few abuse was never discussed, but simply declared and then overlooked, never to be mentioned a second time. We didn't know we had a voice. Our parents showed up to places unannounced to bond with teachers and assure we understood we must always fall in line. Any aspect of self actualization and will, was squashed to reflect parental dictation. Mothers never revealed family secrets to family or even their closest friends. Their own sisters and they were in competition to prove which was more successful at marriage and raising their children. The abuse was willingly swept under the rug. It was pride that kept our Mothers silent, helplessness, and a desperate want of control.