*Debbi Morgan of “All My Children” fame previously revealed how her physically abusive father, who died of leukemia in 1975, affected the way she related to men.
“Because I didn’t get nurturing from my dad, I kept looking for men to give me that love,” she shared with PEOPLE back in 1997.
As noted by News Amomama, Morgan was never physically abused during her four marriages, but she has confessed that her second husband, actor Charles S. Dutton, was the most challenging.
Here’s more from the site:
Morgan met fellow actor Dutton in 1984, the same year when she divorced her first husband, also actor Charles Weldon following four years of not-so-happy marriage.
But behind their public appearances, there was a disturbing dynamic at home that put Morgan in a situation that she didn’t know how to escape from.
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“One of the most honest things that [Dutton] said to me at the very end, he said: I really never could have made you happy, because I’m not really worth it be anybody’s husband, and I’ll never make that mistake again,” Morgan once shared.
Ultimately, it was Dutton who took the first step toward divorce without letting Morgan know in advance.
After their split, she compared the divorce with “suddenly having your right arm cut off.”
As noted in her 2015 memoir “The Monkey on My Back,” Morgan admitted that her abusive father’s relationship with her mother had her seeking strong men for all the wrong reasons.
“So many times these men that I was looking to for protection were the ones I really needed protection from,” Morgan said.
“There were times the emotional abuse was so bad that at times I felt ‘I don’t know if it would be better to be hit,’” she shared with ET, without referring to any of her ex-husbands.
But Dutton was the moment she “hit rock bottom.”
“That was the relationship that started the big turnaround for me, because that relationship brought me to my knees”, she told Oprah about the marriage.
After divorcing Dutton, Morgan allegedly found happiness with her husband of ten years, businessman Jeffrey Winston.
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