Stockholm Survivor, Kathryn Keats, Bounds Back to Life, Music - Readers Digest, March, Makes her Dream of Reclamation a Reality
Los Angeles, CA (PRWeb) March 1, 2007 -- Kathryn Keats, born Ellen Christian Munger, spent the last twenty years living a lie. She was not who any one who her knew her thought she was. Twenty-four months after recording artist/songwriter Kathryn Keats was able to freely and safely reclaim her identity and her work in music, Readers Digest had the courage to break the story, the story of a person lost in order to live, that no one ever knew; not even Keats' own children. Her closest friends, shocked by the harrowing story, are determined to support the singer as she now attempts to marry her two worlds: the woman of today, Kathryn Keats, with the girl of long ago, Ellen Christian Munger.
Kathryn Keats is piecing her life together after her near-murder twenty years ago. Until now, she had kept the door of her past closed from even her loved ones. The world she had lived in with her lover and music collaborator turned gruesome when their lives fell under the spell of Schizophrenia, splintering her partners' personality seven times. He threatened fantasies of seeing Kathryn "dismembered and hanging from the trees after the Zen God's instructed him to commit Hara Kiri." Keats suffered through fifty-four days of captivity, culminating in an arduous jury trial that changed legal history. For years, she worked with Victim Witness to assure her sanity and security, all the while fighting demons of Traumatic Stress Syndrome and Stockholm Syndrome.
As Keats reinvented herself, Ellen Christian Munger ceased to exist. Many times, though, Kathryn and the memory of Ellen would join together in secret fear, struggling with the horrors of the ritualistic abuse from her past and the struggle to surrender her life as a singer/songwriter. She knew she could never sing again. But still, she told no one. The secret was hers alone. To tell someone could mean death to her and those she loved.
When she heard of her perpetrators death, after much consideration, Keats decided it was time to come out with the truth. After reading the remarkable writings of Ellen Sherman, Keats knew it was Sherman who would be the first to tell her story. At last, Kathryn Keats was no longer alone. She reunited with Judge Leo Dorado for the first time since the trial. Judge Dorado saved her life, recording the events of her plight, attempting the impossible, and for the first time in history, defended his tortured victim with no evidence from witnesses. To him, Kathryn Keats will always be Ellen Munger. And to her, that's just fine.
In the summer of 2006, Ellen Sherman flew to San Francisco to interview Keats for Readers Digest. Kathryn shyly sang her original music for Sherman, hoping in her heart that there might be more performances in her future.
It was her father, who died at summer's end, who encouraged his daughter to complete the journey of loss and to begin to celebrate the road to reclamation. He, too, had written for Readers Digest as a young journalist. Before he died, Kathryn told him that her story would be coming out in the magazine. Her father, understanding that his daughter had to speak up in order to heal from her brutal past, suggested that she record a CD. It took a while, but in January 2007, Kathryn Keats finished the CD, appropriately named "After the Silence." One of the songs "Hold Me" was written the same day that her father passed into the heavens.
Kathryn Keats is proud to stand up in order to be of service to others, more vulnerable than she could have imagined and very forgiving. Now she is determined to live. And she will have her music. "After the Silence", not yet released but available only at Kathryn Keats site and Smile Records or you can visit Ellen Sherman's story about Kathryn Keats twenty year fast and hear her music on Readers Digest web site.
Keats is experiencing a beautiful part of living now, as those who hear her story gather to share their own tales of survival. "Being able to be of service is a gift. Recording "After the Silence", another. I was allowed to live through an experience that most do not. I will remember that. I will tell you what I know. I have information that may save you."
As Kathryn learns to be out of hiding, just beginning to grasp the feelings of losing twenty years of her life, she will surely learn what it is to be free.
Look for Paul Thompson's interview about Kathryn's dramatic life story in Woman Magazine/London UK.
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