# @pinknews on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-09-29T12:02:08.000+00:00
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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 feeling that I was a willing participant.”

Gage explained that he hadn’t spoken to his mother about the experience until he handed her a copy of his memoir to read.

“I sat her down and I was like, ‘Look, I hate talking about this. I hate having this talk with you. I hate having shame about it because we shouldn’t have shame about it. I just want to warn you, there’s probably a part that’s gonna be disturbing for a mom to read, but you did nothing wrong and it wasn’t because of a lack of your parenting or anything,’” he said. “It was hard for her to read.”

As for how he’s coping now, Gage agreed that he had “dealt with it” through having therapy, and being open with his loved ones. Now, he says he isn’t left “feeling like I’m a weird freak that it happened to. It doesn’t have this weight”.

#LukasGage #WhiteLotus #Overcompensating #LGBTQNews #LGBTQIA

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