Prepare yourself for a roller coaster ride this week, y’all.
26.04.2023 - 19:23 / perezhilton.com
[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content]Kevin Smith is getting vulnerable about the “dark place” he was in prior to seeking mental health help.
In January of last year, the Clerks director quietly checked himself into Arizona’s Sierra Tucson treatment center after feeling like he was losing his mind. He described the challenging time as a “complete break from reality,” adding, “it was scary” in a Wednesday interview with People. He recalled of the time:
The Clerks star explained that after a month of intensive therapy, he discovered the root of his waning mental state stemmed from childhood trauma. For years, he realized, he’d subconsciously been hiding behind a “larger than life” public persona, which he refers to as “the other guy.”
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Kevin explained that at just six years old, he was forced by an older boy to perform sexual acts with a girl from his neighborhood — which he’d coped with in his own mind by writing off as kids “just playing doctor in an alleyway.” However, during his time in therapy last year, he realized for the first time the true impact the traumatic even had on him and why. He recalled of his therapist’s take on the situation:
How traumatizing for poor young Kevin. And the fact that he rationalized the abuse for so many years is just so sad! But that wasn’t the extent of his trauma…
The Cop Out director revealed that three years later, when he was 9, his fourth grade teacher looked at him “with the most abject disgust” and said, “Ugh, the gut on you, Mr. Smith” — in front of the entire class! He recalled of the situation:
Wow, how messed up… For an ADULT to pick on such a young child like that?? Disgusting.
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Kevin Smith is revealing for the first time that he spent one month at a treatment facility to address memories that he said put him «in a weird, dark place.» And it was at that moment when he said he knew he needed to get help.The famed director opened up like never before about his mental health struggles, telling he woke up one morning last January in «terror» and he was convinced he was losing his mind. At the center of his mental health struggles was a traumatizing episode at six years old when he said he was sexually abused when an older boy he didn't know forced him to perform sexual acts with a young neighborhood girl.Smith told the outlet he was convinced that they «were just playing doctor in an alleyway,» but it was his therapist who opened his eyes.«When a third party is instructing you to do something against your core values like that,» Smith recalled the therapist telling him, «that's sexual abuse.»There was another incident Smith recalled that proved traumatizing, and that was a teacher fat-shaming him when he was just nine years old and made fun of his «gut» in front of the entire class.«I felt disgusting, like I didn't matter.
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