Kevin Smith reveals sexual abuse at 6, ‘scary’ mental health treatment
nypost.comlifelong struggle with his weight.“It was scary,” Smith, 52, told People. “At that moment, I wouldn’t have been averse to not being around any longer.
I called a friend and said, ‘I’m in a weird, dark place. I need to go somewhere and get help.’ “Smith said that a month of intensive therapy helped him escape from his “larger-than-life” persona — or as he calls it, “the other guy” — and deal with his darkest moments.
The “Clerks” director claims that at 6, an older boy in his neighborhood forced him to perform sexual acts with a young neighborhood girl.Smith said he convinced himself that he and the girl “were just playing doctor in an alleyway.”He said he saw the situation differently when meeting with his therapist in January.“When a third party is instructing you to do something against your core values like that,” the therapist reportedly told him, “that’s sexual abuse.”The Post reached out to Smith for comment.
Smith said he was further traumatized a few years later when his fourth-grade teacher, who was not named by People, made fun of his weight in front of his classmates. (Smith famously showed off a 51-pound weight loss in 2018 following a heart attack.) “I felt disgusting, like I didn’t matter.
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