Terry Crews recounts his mother's 'heinous' way of checking to see if he'd entered puberty: 'It was abusive'



Actor Terry Crews said that his mother subjected him to a physical examination as a young child to see if he had entered puberty.

What are the details?

According to a report from the Atlanta Black Star, Crews — who has just published his memoir, "Tough: My Journey to True Power" — recalled the moment his mother subjected him to a physical examination to see if he'd entered puberty.

Crews, 53, said that his mother made him pull down his pants for inspection.

"She made me pull down my pants to see if I'd hit puberty," Crews said. "It was wild because I never envisioned actually being that transparent. It was so difficult because I love my mom and, to be honest, I didn't want her to go down as having done something so heinous. But at the same time, it was abusive. This is the stuff that came out in therapy, the stuff that I really had to address."

What else did he have to say?

Crews recently told USA Today that even though he spent his early adult life projecting what he thought was true masculinity, he was carrying around a heart full of weakness.

"I had grown up and lived my entire adult life with a false idea of what it meant to be tough. I walked around this world with my chest puffed out like I was the alpha male. I saw myself only as strong and powerful," he admitted. "In fact, I was weak and powerless, and everything I did was driven by shame, insecurity, and fear."

He added, "It's taken me ten years of nonstop working on myself, but I've finally come to a better place."

Crews also added that his relationship with his father wasn't much better — and that affection of any kind was frowned upon.

"[I]t's night and day," he said of his relationship with his own son. "Let me tell you. I hug my son. I kiss my son. It's a really, really wonderful relationship because I am about finding out what my son wants."

He concluded, "You think you're over things and then you hear something and you're affected. Sometimes I still feel insecure about who I am. At times I do feel scared. And if someone calls me on it, 'Hey, you scared?' I immediately want to match that challenge. This is all part of the therapy. It's all part of not getting baited because you realize a lot of these things are bait and manipulative to pull you in certain directions. Now I can acknowledge when lines are being crossed. Now I can choose which way I want to go."

Wife of actor and former football player Terry Crews shares how God transformed husband's life after years of porn and infidelity



Terry Crews has been known for a lot of things: movie and TV roles, professional football (albeit a limited career), hosting the hit show "America's Got Talent," and even hawking Old Spice.

He's a popular celebrity with an engaging attitude, a winning personality, and now — thanks to help from above — a character that reflects things that are truly important.

But he hasn't always been the man he appears to be on the big and small screens. In fact, he was a cheating, porn-addicted husband who nearly left his marriage in tatters.

He's a different man now, according to his wife of 32 years, Rebecca Crews, an author, musician, song-writer, and actor in her own right.

And that change in Terry's life is all thanks to "God's faithfulness," Rebecca told the Christian Post in a recent interview.

What happened?

Rebecca, who has a new album coming out, told the outlet that one of her best-known songs, "Breathless," came as a result of God telling her, "Write, Rebecca," at a time when she wasn't sure Terry was ever going to come home.

"My husband and I had gone through a really bitter breakup, and we were trying to rebuild our marriage when we got into a verbal fight," she told the Post. "I'd always had these inner fears of rejection and abandonment, and so often, when we would fight, my husband would grab his things and leave. He would abandon me there with all my feelings. And it would always leave me in this frozen, fearful state."

God, she said, had some work to do on their marriage — and especially on Terry, who has talked candidly about his infidelity and porn addiction.

"I believe that I should respect, reverence, and allow my husband to lead our family," Rebecca told the website. "I do not, however, believe I'm supposed to be a doormat. And in many ways, I was. And there was abuse in my family that allowed me to be codependent and abuse in his family that gave him a chip on his shoulder."

They weren't finding the answer in the organization of the church, she said, "because sometimes the church can be so accommodating of male failure and expecting the wives to look the other way by forgiving."

But they did find help when they turned to God, the Bible, and biblical counseling to rebuild their lives and their marriage.

'Stronger than ever'

Now they are "stronger than ever," she said.

"Today, I look at my husband, and I always say he's a better man than me," Rebecca shared with the Post. "He took hold of the Word of God, and he took hold of the Scriptures, and he just ran with all his might."

Terry told God, "I don't want to be like this anymore," she said. "And he amazes me every day. He really is the kinder, gentler version of Terry Crews because he let God do a work in his life."

Rebecca admits that they're not perfect, but she loves their relationship now: "It's free from fear."

(H/T: PureFlix Insider)

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