Alice Munro’s alma mater, Western University, has decided to pause its Alice Munro Chair in Creativity program amid revelations that Munro allegedly covered for her husband after her daughter told her he was sexually abusing her.
Andrea Robin Skinner, Munro’s daughter, wrote in an essay published in the Toronto Star on Sunday that Munro’s second husband, Gerald Fremlin, allegedly sexually assaulted her when she was 9 years old.
When Skinner told Munro, Skinner wrote, “my mother had no similar feelings for me. She reacted exactly as I had feared she would, as if she had learned of an infidelity.”
