Filmmaker Tyler Perry, who is promoting a new movie about an abused teenager, has gone public with brutal memories of his own childhood beatings and molestation.

In an email to fans that has Perry’s admirers buzzing, he recounts various examples of terrible childhood mistreatment – from his father beating him senseless to a neighbor woman molesting him at age 10.

Even his grandmother, the mother of his hated father, became a threat when she objected to his weekly allergy shot, he recalls. ”Ain’t nothing wrong with that damn boy – he just got germs on him. Stop wasting all that money,” she said, he recalled.

“She came and got me out of the living room leaving my Matchbox cars on the floor. She said she was going to kill these germs on me once and for all. She gave me a bath in ammonia.”

Perry, 38, fled his abusive home in New Orleans and, after a period of homelessness and struggle, became a writer, director, actor and producer. (more…)

Taraji P. Henson who plays a drunk, Mary J. Blige who sings, Madea as herself and a bunch of other supporting cast members

Tyler Perry is playing Santa to 65 Pennsylvania children from a largely minority day-care center whose outing was axed when they were turned away by a predominantly white swim club. Instead of wading in the waters of the so-called exclusive Valley Swim Club in suburban Philly – whose members feared an influx of the black and Hispanic children, the adults were quoted as saying – these kids are going to Disney World, with Perry paying for the works: airfare, food, hotel and admissions for the three-day visit.
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A woman says she’s a big Tyler Perry fan — Perry begs to differ, calling her a dangerous stalker, and apparently the cops agree, cause she’s been busted. We’ve learned Dawne Wilson

was arrested Wednesday outside Perry’s production studios in Atlanta … a place where she’s been an unwelcome visitor many times before. By showing up, Wilson violated a restraining order Perry had obtained. Our sources say Wilson has a “long history” of allegedly stalking Perry and he considers her “very dangerous.”

Wilson was arrested for aggravated stalking, a felony.

She’s currently in custody.

Tyler Perry introduced thousands of formally attired guests to the new 30-acre Tyler Perry Studios facility in southwest Atlanta.
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