Joshua Bassett recalls horrifying childhood sexual abuse – PinkNews

Joshua Bassett attends the Warner Music Group Pre-Grammy Party In Hollywood, California. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Warner Music) High School Musical star Joshua Bassett has opened up about the sexual abuse he experienced as a child in a new interview with radio DJ Zach Sang. Bassett revealed he was a victim of child abuse in a landmark interview with GQ earlier this year, explaining to the magazine that he had repressed his memories of the horrific experience and only remembered last year. Speaking to Sang on the broadcaster’s radio show, Bassett talked about his experience in more detail, revealing that his childhood abuser was a member of his family and that the abuse spanned roughly four years, beginning when the actor was just five-years-old. “It started when I was about five and it was domestic,” he stated. “This person told me ‘You can’t tell anybody,’ so I’m thinking, if I tell anyone I’m gonna get in trouble.” He went on to speak about a second abuser in his adolescence, an older man he met through theatre who Bassett says groomed him from the age of 13. The man would have been 18 or 19 at the beginning of their relationship.…
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