Mary Murphy Shares Her Story of Domestic Abuse With Ellen DeGeneres

By On 10/21/2009 · 6 Comments · In American Idol, David Hernandez, Ellen DeGeneres, Simon Fuller, So You Think You Can Dance

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Ellen Degeneres proved to be a sensitive and sympathetic interviewer when So You Think You Can Dance judge, Mary Murphy, stopped by the Ellen Degeneres show to tell the story of her 8-year marriage to an abusive partner.

Mary teared up a few times as she described the rape and beatings dealt by her controlling husband, and her parents who insisted Mary needed to “make the marriage work.”

Ellen choked up a little herself when she commiserated with Mary, revealing that she had no support from family when she faced similar circumstances.

“I just want it out of my brain,” says Mary about why she chose to tell her story, “I want to stomp it out.”

Mary is featured in a cover story in this week’s US Magazine

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    Good for her for tellling her story and for the success in her personal life. And good for her for bringing up the statistics of how many people are killed a day. And for bringing how gradual the abuse can be, and the shame of it happening to them.

    I admire her for sharing her surviving, her thriving and her decision to share her story.

    And on a less serious note, thank goodness I don’t watch SYTYCD anymore, because I don’t see how I could rag on her for her shrieking and hot tamale train comments after seeing this segment and how much dance meant to her.

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