Thursday, March 28, 2024

Tamron Hall Launches Fund in Honor of Late Sister

TV personality Tamron Hall attends the 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York on May 14, 2016 in New York City.
TV personality Tamron Hall attends the 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York on May 14, 2016 in New York City.

*Tamron Hall has launched a fund in her late sister’s memory to help friends and family members of domestic abuse victims find resources to help stop the violence.

The 46-year-old “Today” show host admits she didn’t know what to say or do when she realized her sister, Renate, was a victim of domestic violence. In 2004, Renate was found fatally beaten and bludgeoned to death, floating face down in her backyard pool at her home in Houston, Texas.

Now, Tamron is making sure friends and family members of other victims never feel as helpless as she did by creating The Tamron [Heart] Renate Fund in support of Safe Horizon, which helps provide shelter and other services for survivors.

Hall explains that while there are places to turn for victims of abusive relationships in dangerous situations, she found there wasn’t as much aid for the family members or friends who suspect someone they know is in trouble. It was not that they don’t want to help — they just don’t know how.

The fund will supply those people with an outlet for support and advice on how they can help, with the first step calling a hotline to speak with a counselor.

“You can’t just Google, ‘What do I do when my friend is being abused?’ ” she explains. “It’s much more comforting a person on the other line. You can’t call 911 because you suspect there’s abuse.”

She continues, “What this fund will do is provide resources to help family members, so that someone can call and say, ‘My sister is being abused and I don’t know what to do.’ ”

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