Alex handiest had his dual brother Marcus' reminiscences after a bike accident — however it was once all lies. Is 'Tell Me Who I Am' a true story? Plus, where are the brothers these days?
When Alex Lewis was once 18 years old, he was taken with a bike coincidence that left him without any recollections — simplest spotting his twin brother Marcus when he woke up in the health center.
Thanks to his brother, Alex used to be in a position to rebuild his lifestyles primarily based on the knowledge and pictures he shared of their youth, circle of relatives, and pals.
However, years later, Alex discovered that the entirety Marcus told him was once a lie. That is the premise of Netflix's new documentary, Tell Me Who I Am .
Wait, is this a true story?
Yes. Both Alex and Marcus wrote a book about the experience with the identical name as the documentary and detailed how Marcus — who had buried their anxious formative years — concealed darkish family secrets and techniques from Alex to offer protection to him.
It wasn't until the twins' mom gave up the ghost and they have been going via personal property of their family home that Alex started to suspect they did not have the highest life Marcus painted.
When he asked his brother in the event that they’d been abused as children, Marcus stated sure however presented no main points. And Marcus refused to tell him for many years — until now.
"You've got to understand that once you came to me on that day that I'll never forget and you asked whether our mother abused us, and I simply said 'yes' but nothing else... I thought that was perfectly adequate and you could get on with your life with that," Marcus explained of his resolution to cover their past to his brother. "By giving that to you, I then had to give it all back to myself, which I spent f--king years getting rid of. Burying and burying and burying... It allowed me to have a free life, as you were having a free life."
He persevered, "When I took it away from you, I took it away from me. I'd been silent for me. If I gave it to you, I had to give it to me and I have not been ready to break the silence."
So, what really took place to Alex and Marcus? Warning: spoilers forward.
The brothers, now age 54, in spite of everything came face-to-face in the documentary and Tell Me Who I Am ends with Marcus doing just that — giving Alex a candid recounting of the sexual abuse they suffered in the hands of their mom, who has since passed away, through a pre-taped video.
"Our mother would take us into her room, she would take us into her bed. She would make us touch each other. She would make us play with each other," Marcus said before detailing how their mom would also touch her children inappropriately.
Marcus Lewis today.
Marcus went on to element how her mother then handed round the brothers to her buddies — however never in combination, all the time on my own, where "strange men" would sexually abuse them.
"This was something that was a normality in our life," Marcus added between tears. "This was something we grew up with. And we accept it... children will accept anything because they love their parents. And they think what their parents are doing is part of growing up."
Where are Alex and Marcus lately?
It seems that Alex has in any case gotten the closure he wanted — and hopefully which means the brothers can now center of attention on mending their relationship.
In the documentary, Alex confessed he could not imagine the magnitude of the secret however Marcus had one more secret to percentage.
Alex Lewis lately.
He revealed that the remaining time he "was passed around," their mother drove him to London and a famous artist began abusing him in his studio — Marcus was 14 years old at the time — but he mentioned "no." He was able to push the predator away and get out of the space, and it was Alex that snuck him again into their room.
"That's what I needed," Alex instructed his brother. "No more silence. No more secrets. And I have you back... with me."
Stream Tell Me Who I Am on Netflix nowadays.
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