Charlie Webster felt suicidal after ‘traumatic’ childhood abuse from stepfather

Charlie Webster felt suicidal for years after being abused by her stepfather as a child.

The TV presenter said her ‘controlling’ stepdad verbally and physically abused her and also targeted her mum during their 27-year marriage.

She recalled how she was seven and living in Sheffield when he started calling her ‘stupid, thick and ugly’.

The taunts soon turned physical and he once ‘beat her to the floor’ so brutally that a stranger had to ‘drag’ him off her.

‘The control and abuse was so bad I felt suicidal as a kid and as an adult,’ Charlie told The Sun.

‘One time he beat me to the floor because he was drunk. A stranger had to drag him off me because he wouldn’t get off.’

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She went on: ‘When my mum was at work, he would punch me and give me a dead arm and a Chinese burn, while saying I was a cry-baby and weak.’

Charlie’s mum tried to leave her stepdad several times but he threatened to kill her – and himself – if she did.

Charlie, who was put into a medically-induced coma in 2016 after contracting Malaria in Rio, started getting ‘flashbacks’ to his beatings once she came out of hospital.

She was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and explained that ‘trauma ignites trauma’.

The sports presenter has only now started to ‘deal’ with her childhood ordeal, admitting that her stepdad still had ‘so much control’ over her even five years ago.

The TV star previously opened up about being in a coma, recalling how she could hear the doctors discussing her impending death.

Sharing a snap of herself lying in a hospital bed, she wrote in 2018: ‘I could hear when I was in the coma, it was incredibly distressing.

‘I was also told I was dying when I was still conscious. It was like torture trapped inside.

‘Today feels weird, hard to describe, it floods back memories of the pain and also the heartbreak of my mum and brothers but I have a big smile on my face that I survived and I’m still surviving.’

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