Warning: This post addresses topics relating to the s3xual abus3 of a minor. Reader discretion is advised.
Companion actor Lukas Gage has spoken out for the first time about being abused by a counsellor at an acting camp when he was just 11-years-old.
Speaking to Amanda Hirsch on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, the 30-year-old queer star explained that he first spoke to someone about the experience just three years ago, as he “didn’t even realise” what had happened constituted molestation.
“I didn’t even realise it was a thing. I think there’s a real stigma behind it, because I didn’t do anything,” he shared.
“You feel there’s a participation of you, and it wasn’t until I had a therapist be like, literally had to break it down for me like in my twenties. [They said] ‘You’re in your twenties, this person was in their twenties, would you ever do anything with an 11-year-old?’ I’m like, no. No. But that was a hard part to talk about.”
“I left my body,” he continued. “There was a ...
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