Mary Murphy, the voluble judge on Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance, reveals in Us Magazine that she suffered abuse at the hands of her ex-husband for nine years. Murphy says her unnamed former spouse sexually assaulted her three months into their marriage. “We’d had another jealous fight, screaming, crashing over furniture, and he said, ‘I want to have sex,’” Murphy tells the magazine. “I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?! We’re fighting here!’ He said, ‘You’re my wife, and you’ll do what I tell you!’ I pulled out a kitchen knife and screamed, ‘You’re going to have to stab me, because I’m not having sex with you!’ He knocked it out of my hands, held me down and raped me.” She goes on to detail years of beatings and sexual assault, followed by gifts to assuage the abuse. “In the first year or two, I’d fight back, but eventually, I’d just lie there. Get it over with, I thought. It’ll be quick anyway.” Murphy’s former husband calls the allegations “flat-out lies.”
Oct 14
2009
07:23 PM ET
'So You Think You Can Dance' judge Mary Murphy details years of spousal abuse
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“Flat out lies”? Okay, yeah, because a person would really go through the effort of making up these allegations. Anybody that lies about any form of abuse is pathetic. I absolutely believe her.
That’s the most illogical reason imaginable for believing some one. Let’s do away with trials. Just put people in jail if some one accuses them. After all, they must be guilty. No one would ever lie about something like that. Let’s hope you never end up on jury.
I went through much of the same. Bruises, broken bones, black eyes. I finally found the courage to leave because I didn’t want my little son to grow up thinking that’s how men treat women.
I believe her too. No way would she make up something like that. I am glad she got out of that abusive relationship!
I believe her, but yes there are women out there who make this stuff up. They are obviously sick but yeah it happens and that makes the men just as much a victim.
I believe her. Spousal abuse is usually hidden in shame. It takes courage to share that with the world. She’s a brave woman for leaving and for telling her story to the world.
Geez, all she had to do was screech that hot tamale thing she does (incessently) and the guy would have run for the hills.
I think the big question is, who cares? I would have been perfectly happy never actually knowing this.