Alice Munro's 'disturbing' reaction after daughter accused the literary icon's husband of sexually abusing her

Nobel prize-winning writer Alice Munro screamed astatine constabulary and told them her girl was a liar erstwhile they arrived to complaint nan novelist's hubby pinch intersexual abuse, it has emerged.

The literate world has been reeling since Andrea Skinner revealed past week that her celebrated mother stood by hubby Gerald Fremlin aft he was convicted of abusing her ain girl from nan property of nine.

The detective who arrived to laic charges against Munro's hubby has now revealed that nan Canadian writer was 'yelling, she was mad' erstwhile constabulary arrived astatine her Ontario location successful 2004.

Retired Ontario Provincial Police Detective Sam Lazarevich recalled being stunned astatine her consequence and said he 'couldn't wrap my caput astir her attitude'.

'That's your daughter. Aren't you going to take sides your daughter?' he asked.

Fremlin, a cartographer, received a suspended condemnation and probation for 2 years successful aft admitting indecent battle successful 2005, but Munro stood by him until his decease successful 2013 - nan twelvemonth she won nan Nobel Prize for Literature.

The condemnation was not reported astatine nan clip and Skinner only decided to uncover her mother's betrayal aft nan writer died successful May this twelvemonth astatine nan property of 92.

In a harrowing effort for nan Toronto Star In her essay, Skinner wrote that Fremlin began sexually abusing her successful 1976, erstwhile she was 9 and he was successful his 50s.

She said nan first intersexual battle happened during a sojourn to Munro and Fremlin's location successful Ontario, aft Fremlin climbed into nan furniture she was sleeping in.

Skinner said she told her stepmother, Carole Munro who told her father, Jim Monro, but he excessively did thing to face his daughter's abuser.

In nan pursuing years, Skinner says Fremlin often exposed himself to her, told her astir her mother's intersexual needs, and 'about nan small girls successful nan vicinity he liked'.

'At nan time, I didn't cognize this was abuse,' Skinner wrote. 'I thought I was doing a bully occupation of preventing maltreatment by averting my eyes and ignoring his stories.

Skinner added that Fremlin mislaid liking successful her erstwhile she became a teenager, but she continued to suffer consequences of nan maltreatment and developed bulimia, insomnia and migraines.

It was not until she was successful her 20s that Skinner straight confronted her mother astir nan maltreatment that had happened aft reference 1 of her short stories astir a subsister of puerility intersexual abuse.

'She reacted precisely arsenic I had feared she would, arsenic if she had learned of an infidelity,' Skinner recalled.

'As it turned out, successful spite of her sympathy for a fictional character, my mother had nary akin feelings for me.

'She said that she had been 'told excessively late', she loved him excessively much, and that our misogynistic civilization was to blasted if I expected her to contradict her ain needs, sacrifice for her children and dress up for nan failings of men.

'She was adamant that immoderate had happened was betwixt maine and my stepfather. It had thing to do pinch her.'

Munro returned to her hubby aft a short separation but Skinner went to constabulary successful 2004 aft being revolted by a gushing mag portion Munro had written astir her cartographer husband.

Fremlin had written letters to nan family successful which he admitted to nan maltreatment but blamed it connected Skinner, describing her arsenic a 'homewrecker' and accusing her of going into his chamber 'for intersexual adventure.'

'If nan worst comes to worst I intend to spell public,' he wrote successful 1 letter.

'I will make disposable for publication a number of photographs, notably immoderate taken astatine my compartment adjacent Ottawa which are highly eloquent, 1 of Andrea successful my underwear shorts.'

Skinner's siblings corroborated Fremlin's confession but Munro went 'sideways, wholly against her daughter, and each pro for him,' erstwhile constabulary arrived.

'That nan feline was a nut,' Lazarevich recalled. 'A batch of guys for illustration him, they don't constitute letters — successful fact, he's nan only feline I came crossed who wrote letters. Mostly nan guys conscionable say, 'She threw herself astatine me'.'

And he is struggling to understand why nan revered writer chose to guidelines by nan man who had abused her daughter.

'Obviously this tarnishes her legacy,' he told nan Star Tribune.

'If I would person had her book astatine location I would person thrown it into nan garbage.

'From that constituent on, until she passed away, she'd beryllium getting different awards and honors, and it ever bugged me.

'It bugged maine for years.'