John Stamos Opens Up About Being Sexually Abused as a Child
It took writing a book for John Stamos to realize that a troubling childhood experience he’d repressed from his memory really was wrong.
In his upcoming memoir, If You Would Have Told Me, the Full House actor reflects on a 2018 ceremony where he accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award from the nonprofit Childhelp for his advocacy work on behalf of abused children. It was then, he writes, that he recalled something he hadn’t “thought about in years.”
As Stamos confirmed to People in an exclusive interview, he was 10 or 11 years old when his babysitter sexually abused him.