Ricky Gervais spent his childhood terrified he was going to get his privates cut off by a child abuser. The comic said the fear came from a warning his mum gave him to stay away from the toilets at his local park.He said instead of telling him to beware of paedophiles she decided to tell him to watch out for men in the loos as they were hanging around to slice off boys’ willies.The After Life creator, 59, said: “There had obviously been some sort of paedophile sighting when I was little, and it was in the park where I played.“My mum said: ‘Don’t go into the toilets in the park.’ She couldn’t explain to me what a paedophile was, because I was little – I must have been seven or eight.“So when I asked why, she said: ‘Because there’s a man.
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