06-06-2007 19:00
Steve Martin was once severely beaten by his father as a child.
The comedic actor reveals in his upcoming memoir, 'Born Standing Up', that his dad brutally struck him with a belt when he was just nine years old leading to a 30-year rift.
In the book, Martin describes how he was eating dinner in front of the TV when "my father muttered something to me, and I responded with a mumbled, 'What?'
"He shouted, 'You heard me,' thundered up from his chair, pulled his belt out of its loops, and inflicted a beating that never seemed to end.
"The next day I was covered in welts and wore long pants and sleeves to hide them at school.
"But I swore with icy determination, that only the most formal relationship would exist between my father and me, and for perhaps 30 years, neither he nor I did anything to repair the rift."
The tell-all book, due to be published in December by Scribner, also contains amusing anecdotes from the 'Roxanne' star's life.
Steve Martin
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