{"id":2661635,"date":"2026-09-15T12:17:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-cnn-anchor-shares-story-of-parental-beating-that-she-never-forgot\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:19:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:19:51","slug":"former-cnn-anchor-shares-story-of-parental-beating-that-she-never-forgot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-cnn-anchor-shares-story-of-parental-beating-that-she-never-forgot\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CNN Anchor Shares Story of Parental Beating That She Never Forgot"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-cnn-anchor-shares-story-of-parental-beating-that-she-never-forgot%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2661635&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Brooke Baldwin revealed publicly for the first time that her father violently beat her during her childhood, using a belt and causing her to wake up with bruises. She shared this story in her Substack newsletter &#8220;Unraveling&#8221; while filming her independent series &#8220;America, Tell Me Everything,&#8221; where she talks to women about personal experiences. Baldwin reflected on her childhood, explaining how her mother&#8217;s love and her own resilience helped her break the cycle of abuse. She emphasized the importance of recognizing a child&#8217;s innate knowledge and feelings at around age 8 and highlighted how life&#8217;s hardships can obscure that purity, but also how it is indeed possible to rise above them. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >article includes related content<\/a> about Baldwin&#8217;s current work and promotional material.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Brooke Baldwin says her father used to beat her \u201cblack and blue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ex-CNN anchor publicly disclosed this painful childhood episode in her <a href=\"https:\/\/unravelingwithbrooke.substack.com\/p\/week-102-sht-that-stays-with-us-my\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Substack<\/a> newsletter \u201cUnraveling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This story, which had not been made public until Sunday, came to light in an interview for Baldwin\u2019s new independent series, in which she travels across the country speaking to women about anything and everything.<\/p>\n<p>The woman with whom Baldwin was speaking when the childhood memory resurfaced was the eleventh in the series. She, too, had also been spanked as a child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have one very specific memory. Elementary school. My father\u2026 The belt,\u201d Baldwin wrote, recalling the fear she felt awaiting punishment.<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin didn\u2019t recall exactly what she had done to get the beating, but she assumed that it had something to do with her little brother. Because she was older and bigger and supposedly more responsible, she got the blame \u2014 and the punishment.<\/p>\n<p>This particular beating, however, was different. Baldwin said that she was beaten so much that she woke up with a black-and-blue backside.<\/p>\n<p>This was particularly upsetting for a young Baldwin, who was scheduled to leave for sleepaway camp that week. Imagining how the other girls would respond to her bruised skin made everything that much worse.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that this ended up being her last spanking, Baldwin described showing the bruising to her mother: \u201cThis was my little-girl-way of speaking up. <em>Do you see me? This hurt. This is not okay.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Looking back, she realized that her mother already felt terrible, yet considered that there might also have been feelings of shame about her husband\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p>While she remembered with pain the way her mother constantly deferred to her father, Baldwin remained careful to show her mother love, not condemnation, acknowledging that her mother had been doing the best she could. Rather, Baldwin specifically called out her father on making decisions by himself that he shouldn\u2019t have made alone.<\/p>\n<p>She clearly explained the need to \u201cbreak the cycle\u201d and how she did it \u2014 by burning her life down.<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin suggested that this fit into her idea that at around 8 years old, the human being is \u201cbasically fully baked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For her, she wrote, each 8-year-old already knows what they love, what they don\u2019t, what makes them laugh, what makes them cry. 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