Ryan Murphy Quotes

I didn't have a good childhood growing up.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

I had a bad background just growing up as a child.

I remember the bad times as a succession of painful emotional snapshots: Me walking into the library at 24 Sussex, seeing my mother in tears, and hearing her talk about leaving while my father stood facing her, stern and ashen.

I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just make it up. A lot of things were true and abusive and horrible things that happened to me that my father did.

I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.

I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.

When I was a little girl, my family was extremely close, loving and really happy, and then overnight, things just became a nightmare, and instead of them becoming a nightmare and getting better, they became a nightmare and just kept getting worse.

I definitely didn't have a happy childhood.

I grew up in a little bit of a broken home.

Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. It was pretty, pretty dysfunctional, and whose isn't?

Any kid who grew up with an alcoholic parent will tell you how nauseating it feels never to know what it will be like when you come home.

I had a very turbulent and painful childhood, like many people. I left for college when I was 16 years old and up until that point I'd lived in five different family configurations. Each one ended or changed through a death or some terrible loss.

I didn't have a happy childhood.

I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

I had a very difficult upbringing.

I grew up in a very toxic home.

I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

The real demon in my life is my father.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.