Joshua Bassett Reveals He Was Sexually Abused 'A Lot' as a Child

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Joshua Bassett is getting candid about his past. The 20-year-old star opened up in an interview with GQ. During the interview, he revealed that he left his West Village apartment and now lives “nowhere,” reading self-help books and working on journaling and in therapy. Click inside to read more… “I experienced sexual abuse a lot in my childhood,” he said while tearing up in the interview. “I didn’t remember that until last year, which is pretty insane.

I buried it so far. And when I was a teen, a much older man routinely abused me, and I wasn’t able to see it for what it was at the time,” he continued.

His new song “Set Me Free” is partly about processing the experience, which he called “an anthem for me and the sort of people who’ve held