Dax Shepard has come forward to reveal that he was molested as a child.

“It took me 12 years to tell anyone,” the 41-year-old said
on Sirius XM’s “The Jason Ellis Show” on
Monday. “And then all that time, I was like … ‘It’s my fault,’ as
generic as that is, I’m like, I’m gay, I must have manifested this
because I’m secretly gay.’ I had all these insane thoughts for 11 years
or 12 years.”
Shepard,
who described the molestation as “minimal,” said that he feels it
played a part in his struggle with addiction later in life,
according to USA Today.
This was confirmed by a statistic his mother, who is a court-appointed
advocate for foster children, came across during her work.

“If
you’ve been molested, you only have a 20 percent chance of not being an
addict,” the actor said. “And I was like, ‘Hm, interesting,’ because in
my mind I just like to have a f-----g great time. But when you hear a
statistic like that, I’m like, ‘Oh no, I was going to be an addict,
period.’ ”
Shepard, who is married to actress
Kristen Bell, has been sober since 2004.
This article originally appeared in the New York Post's Page Six.
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