Amy Schumer reveals dark past in new book

FUNNY lady Schumer gets deep and personal in her brand new memoir, revealing details of a tough upbringing and abusive relationships.

Amy Schumer tells all in her new memoir. Picture: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP

AMY Schumer’s long-awaited memoir The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo is in stores this week, and despite the hilarious title, the comedian gets quite revealing between the covers.

Among more humours chapters, the 35-year-old Trainwreck star also opens up about her sometimes challenging upbringing and a past abusive relationship. Here's what you’ll find within its 336 pages:

HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HER DAD IS COMPLICATED

As she was growing up, Schumer’s dad Gordon “was no angel. I know he did dirtbag things behind my mum’s back.”

“My dad was as serious an alcoholic as they came … The only thing that slowed down his drinking was multiple sclerosis.”

Now battling MS, Schumer’s dad’s health has been steadily worsening, as has his morale. However, a recent series of stem cell treatments have given the family hope that his condition may improve.

Schumer attending a book signing this week. Picture: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images

AS IS HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HER MUM

Schumer reveals that her mum Sandra changed the family forever when she announced that she was leaving her husband for another man — the father of Amy’s best friend. Through this time, Schumer writes, Sandra insisted that everything was “OK.”

“This is how we were raised,” she says. “We were always oppressively OK.”

Despite this, mother and daughter remained very close with “not a single healthy boundary between us,” well into Amy’s adulthood. Finally, nearing 30, Schumer confronted her mother with her lingering upset about the affair, and accusing her of “manipulating me into supporting her through all this.” It changed the pair’s relationship, which is now more distant.

“We are kind to one another but I keep my boundaries clear.

“I have never given up on her. I can’t, and I never will.”

Schumer opens up about family pain and awful boyfriends in the new book.

SHE ENDURED AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP IN HER 20S

A boyfriend in her early 20s subjected Schumer to physical and emotional abuse, ranging from constant criticism of her looks to shoving her until she fell during fights.

“I got hurt by accident a lot that year,” she writes. “He’s get jealous about something I did and would squeeze my arm too hard and I’d get a horrible bruise but of course it was an accident, and he always felt terrible afterwards.”

The fighting reached a climax with one altercation where her boyfriend pushed her into a car, then “grabbed a huge butcher knife from a drawer. And that’s when I was sure he was going to kill me.” She escaped, but has words of warning for others in the book: “You’re not alone if it’s happening to you, and you’re not exempt if it hasn’t happened to you yet.”

HER ‘FIRST TIME’ WASN’T CONSENSUAL

It happened with a boyfriend who initiated sex while she was half-asleep.

He had sex with her “without asking first, without kissing me, without so much as looking me in the eyes — or even confirming if I was awake.”

He apologised the next day — and Schumer found herself comforting him.

“I was confused as to why he would have done this to me in this way, but the most dominant feeling I felt was that the guy I was in love with was upset and I wanted to help him.”

“I was 17 years old and wanted my boyfriend to like me.”

Originally published as Amy Schumer reveals dark past in new book