Michael Chernow
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Either he's going to have to go, your son or your father.
One of them has to go.
We can't, this is too, you know, it's too dangerous.
And it put my mother in a very uncomfortable position because my mom was also abused and scared of my dad.
So I made it easy on her.
And I said to her, hey,
tell the child services people that, you know, we're going to figure this out over the next 24 hours.
I'm going to leave.
How old are you at this point?
15.
15.
Yeah.
I was like, I'm going to leave.
you know, I'm, I mean, it's kind of crazy to think about a 15 year old kid, but I was basically like, you know, I'm going to be okay.
I've been doing this a long time now.
It's not like I'm like for the first time sleeping out of the house.
I was like, but I I'm, I'm much happier to leave than have to have you deal with, you know, the crazy guy.
And so I did, I left and, um,
I stayed in high school, but I moved out.
And I was really, at that point at 15, I was fully addicted to drugs and alcohol.