Conductor discusses impact of child sexual abuse with Desert Island Discs host

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Conductor Charles Hazlewood has said he had to go on a “long process of recovery” as a result of the sexual abuse he suffered as a child.

The musician said on the BBC’s Desert Island Discs that he felt “ready to share the hidden part” of his life in public for the first time after “over a decade of healing and therapy”.

Hazlewood told host Lauren Laverne he had decided to talk about it because “abuse is something which thrives on secrecy, that is the toxic energy which it derives its power from”.

He said: “I was the victim of sexual abuse through most of my childhood.” The conductor added: “All of the paedophiles that I knew as a child, they sold it to me as a form of love and that is the most confusing and corrupting thing to get a child