Actor John Stamos claims that a babysitter sexually abused him
The actor explained that he had repressed the memory until he began writing his memoirs, which will be published on October 24.
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:
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: