The actor from the series "Full House," John Stamos, recently claimed that he had been sexually abused when he was a minor. As detailed by the actor during an interview with People magazine, it happened when he was between 10 and 11 years old and it was a babysitter who abused him.
However, he explained, he had repressed the memory until a few months ago, when he began writing his memoirs. Titled "If You Would Have Told Me," the book will land in bookstores on October 24, delving into a difficult memory for Stamos:
I mean, I knew, it was always in the back, and I do so much advocacy for the other survivors. I felt like, I remembered it slightly. It has always been there, but I packed it away as people do, right?
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As he explained to the magazine, he never spoke about what happened to anyone, not even his family. He justified himself by assuring that it was normal and that it took him having to "write a book" to realize that the babysitter's attitude was inappropriate: "I think I told myself, like, 'Ah, it's girls, man.' It was like you're playing dead so they'll stop. But it wasn't totally aggressive. I don't know, it was not good."
It is not the first time that the actor reflected on that specific memory. As John Stamos explained to the magazine, he began to meditate on that event in his life when writing an acceptance speech for his work defending abused children:
I started to write it, and that's when it really came out. And then I thought, 'No, tonight is not about me. It's about the kids. I'm going to pack it away again until the right moment.'
