Bobby Brown reveals Catholic priest tried to molest him at age 10

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Grammy winner Bobby Brown just revealed a Catholic priest tried to molest him at age 10, and he believes the secret trauma was the reason behind his decades of drug/alcohol abuse and brushes with the law.The 53-year-old R&B singer - who claims he hasn't touched a narcotic in 20 years - was sent to a religious facility by social services after witnessing his mother Carole being beaten and arrested by police.'It wasn't a very nice place to be for a child,' Bobby recalled in his upcoming A&E Biography docuseries.

Grammy winner Bobby Brown just revealed a Catholic priest tried to molest him at age 10, and he believes the secret trauma was the reason behind his decades of drug/alcohol abuse and brushes with the law'One of the priests tried to molest me.

He tried to touch my private parts...At that time, I was a young boy. I didn't know what sexual boundaries were. I just knew I didn't like being touched.

Some things are hard to forget.'Brown - who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 32 - fought back and eventually returned to the Orchard Park Projects where he grew up as one of eight children in Boston's rough Roxbury neighborhood. 'I had tucked it down so deep into my soul that I didn't think that I would talk about it again,' the My Prerogative hitmaker told People on Tuesday.'But talking about it really helped me get through a lot of other things that had been bothering me especially that.