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Hollywood actor John Stamos is set to release his memoir, “If You Would Have Told Me,” in which he opens up about his life and career.
The book includes shocking revelations and is inspired by the death of his “Full House” co-star Bob Saget.
Stamos also became a father at the age of 54. He describes the book as a mix of Hollywood, fame, fortune, and personal experiences. (Trending: US Forces Attacked By Suicide Drones)
While writing his upcoming memoir, John Stamos resurfaced a traumatic memory that he had previously suppressed — revealing he'd experienced sexual abuse as a child.
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One of the biggest bombshells in the book is about alleged childhood sexual abuse.
Stamos alleged that he was the victim of childhood sexual abuse.
He claimes that he was molested by a babysitter when he was “10 or 11.”
For the past 20 years, Stamos has served as a Celebrity Ambassador for ChildHelp, a nonprofit organization that works to prevent child abuse.
Stamos shared that he “didn’t tell” anyone about the traumatic abuse at the time.
“I think I told myself, like, ‘Ah, it’s girls, man,'” he recalled.
“It was like you’re playing dead so they’ll stop. But it wasn’t totally aggressive,” Stamos added. “I don’t know, it was not good.”
Stamos explained that “it took me writing a book” to come to terms with the alleged abuse.
“I mean, I knew, it was always in the back, and I do so much advocacy for the [survivors],” he said. (Trending: Devastating New Poll For Joe Biden)
“I felt like, I remembered it slightly. It has always been there, but I packed it away as people do, right?”
“I started to write it, and that’s when it really came out,” he remembered. “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,'”
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“Otherwise, I’m a phony f—,” Stamos added. “It’s like, ‘Come on.'”
“I didn’t want the headlines to be that, and I didn’t want the book to be over that,” Stamos said.
“It was a page or something, but I felt I had to talk about it. It was weird. It was something that, I think, I was probably like 10 or 11 [when it happened]. I shouldn’t have had to deal with those feelings.”
“I’ll tell you, if I found out someone was doing that to my son,” Stamos said, “that’s a totally different story.”
Stamos says he wanted to be one hundred percent forthcoming. “It was hard,” he concluded.
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