A Los Angeles-based brand consultant received a surprise Facebook message last week; an apology from a classmate who bullied him two decades ago.
ChadMichael Morisette posted a screenshot of the message on his Facebook page and wrote that he was bullied during junior high and high school for being gay.
“I was bullied for being gay. I was bullied for being little. I was bullied for every reason someone is bullied. It was awful. I couldn’t even walk to classes without an adult escort or friends with me,” he wrote.
Morrissette told Yahoo.com that he left home when he was 15 but not before enduring constant bullying from “the entire football team.”
“It wasn’t one guy,” he told Yahoo.com “It was six or seven guys who would follow me in the hallways, harassing me, insulting me, threatening my life.”
He wrote on Facebook that one of his bullies contacted him out of nowhere to apologize. An apology, the message indicates, was prompted when his 10-year-old daughter asked him whether he bullied anyone.
“I got this message today. 20 years later… And now he’s a dad. I’m quite moved and never thought I would see the day. #ItGetsBetter.”
The bully, identified by Yahoo.com as Louis Amundson, told the website that he didn’t think anyone would see the message he sent to Morrissette but felt he had to apologize.
“You can’t change your past, but you do still own it,” he told Yahoo.com. “I can’t take back the names I called him, and the threats I made toward him, but I can apologize. It doesn’t excuse my behavior as a child in any way, but as an adult it’s the best I can do to try to make it up to him.
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