Ian Wright: Home Truths – Abused in childhood, a black hole of suffering and rage
There are no happy endings when the Arsenal striker investigates domestic violence
Ian Wright: Home Truths – “abuse creates a vicious cycle,” he says. Photograph: Dan Dewsbury/Brook Lapping/BBC
The hurt glimmers in the footballer’s eyes throughout Ian Wright: Home Truths (BBC One, Thursday, 9pm). Sometimes it intensifies into a gravity well of half-buried trauma, such as when he returns to the single-room bedsit where he and his brother would face the wall in terror as his stepfather beat their mother.
Occasionally it dims – particularly as he pays tribute to a supportive teacher, the first positive male role model in his life. But it’s always there: a black hole of suffering and rage.