Fred Durst Was Bullied In School
MAR 19, 2009 AT 02:50 PM
First Miley Cyrus and now Fred Durst! He's the next celeb to come out and say he was bullied when he was younger. For some reason, I'm having a really hard time picturing that! He doesn't strike me as the type to be pushed around.
"I got beat up all the time in high school. I was the underdog. All of my angst comes from that in my life.”
He adds that the bully factor was actually one of the reasons for Limp Bizkit's break.
"The irony is, Limp Bizkit, for a while, [was] the fuel for bullies to
beat up a lot of these underdogs," Durst explained. "That's when I
decided to stop. I was like, 'You know, that's me they're beating up, and my music is fueling them.' So I held back for a while."
Photos by INF.
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Who he?
Why is it news that celebrities used to get bullied? Hasn't everyone gotten bullied at least once in their life?!
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Sounds like a setup for a reality TV show in which a bunch of has-beens confront people who treated them badly when they were kids. Just you wait.
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No surprise on this end.
35580 points
Okay... Fred's like 40 or something. Who cares!? =^_^=
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So, you only care about people who haven't reached their 40's?
Most of the comments on many sites focus on the wrong areas. The important areas to focus on are: It happened to Miley and Fred, it happens to most kids, it happens to our kids. What can our children and teenagers do and what can we do?
Other people can take forever trying to educate and convert bullies and their parents while the rest of the kids remain victims. But educating bullies and their parents begins when they find out that the old tactics don’t work. Protect kids now; stop bullies first and then educate them.
The lessons we can learn from Miley and Fred are that we need:
1. Principals and other administrators who want to stop bullying.
2. Federal laws that require each school to create programs defining and prohibiting specific bullying behaviors and that hold principals liable for their failures.
3. School anti-bullying policies with specific behaviors spelled out. That way, principals and teachers will be supported in preventing bullying and in tackling bullies and their parents. And the principals who don’t want to act will be forced to.
4. Children, teenagers and parents who respond immediately. They’re alerting the rest of us and rallying us to be their allies and to help them resist.
In addition to professional experience, I learned practical, pragmatic methods growing up in New York City and then watching our six children and their friends and enemies. And we live in Denver, home of Columbine High School.
Disclosure: I’m the author of the books and CDs “How to Stop Bullies in Their Tracks,” and “Parenting Bully-Proof Kids.” See my web site and blog at BulliesBeGone (http://.BulliesBeGone.com).
Hey tree hugger, why don't you go to a bully site and post that, this is a celebrity site. We don't care about kids that get pushed around. This isn't called, Save-a-kid-a-day-from-getting-bullied. M'kay?
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At least he realized the obvious. I couldn't stand his music. About being bullied: it happens to most of us. I pay a lot of attention to make sure my daughter trusts me to tell me when something's wrong at school. When I was in elementary I was beaten up by a guy from the secondary school & it wasn't pretty at all.
THE REALLY COOL ADULTS SEEM TO HAVE THAT KIND OF CHILDHOOD. THEY LEARN TO PREVAIL OVER IT.
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