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Trevor Noah Recalls Horrifying Moment His Stepfather Shot His Mother in the Head

father shoots mother“The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah sat down with PEOPLE to dish about the time he learned from his mother, Patricia Noah, that she was shot in the head by his stepfather.

Recalling the moment, Noah tells the publication that he asked his mother why she didn’t leave: “She said, ‘Because if I leave, he will kill us,’” he said.

“I said to her, ‘That’s extreme. I don’t think that’s real.’ I thought she was being overly dramatic; I didn’t understand it, and she left, and as I talk about it in [my] book, within a matter of a few years, he tried to kill the family.”

Noah wrote about his stepfather’s abuse in his memoir, “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood.”

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Trevor Noah attends the Comedy Central Roast of Steve Hofmeyer at the Lyric Theatre, Gold Reef City on September 11, 2012 in Johannesburg, South Africa

As Page Six reports, Noah remembers getting a call from his brother, who informed him that their stepfather had shot their mother following the couple’s divorce. The bullet entered the back of her head and exited through her nose — narrowly missing her brain.

“I remember after the shooting, my mother was in the hospital, and all I felt was rage,” he said. “My mother said to me, ‘Don’t hate him for doing this, but rather pity him because he too is a victim, in his own way, of a world that has thrust upon him an idea of masculinity that he has subscribed to and is now part of. As for myself, I do not wish to imbue myself with a hatred that only I will carry.’”

Noah’s stepfather was convicted of attempted murder, but was only sentenced to probation.

In related news, Noah delivered yet another Trump “covfefe” joke on Thursday’s “Daily Show,” and it seemed to channel the 1980 South African sleeper classic “The Gods Must Be Crazy.”

In the skit, Noah plays an African youth named Covfefe who only discovers what his name means through a cryptic typo from the president of the United States.

Watch the skit below.

 

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