Jada Pinkett Smith and Britney Spears aren't the only celebrities who have memoirs coming out this month — former Full House star John Stamos is among them, too. In a new interview promoting his upcoming book, If You Would Have Told Me, John revealed that he was sexually abused by a babysitter as a child, something that he chose to include in his memoir. Actually, as he explained in the interview, it was the process of writing the book that made him come to terms with what happened to him in the first place.
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John will share his experience in his memoir when it comes out later this month.
As he said in an interview with People, "it took me writing a book" for him to realize what his former babysitter allegedly did back then was actually abuse.
"I mean, I knew, it was always in the back, and I do so much advocacy for the [survivors]. I felt like, I remembered it slightly. It has always been there, but I packed it away as people do, right?" he said.
When it happened, he didn't tell anyone about it.
"I think I told myself, like, 'Ah, it's girls, man,'" he said. "It was like you're playing dead so they'll stop. But it wasn't totally aggressive. I don't know, it was not good."
It would be years later when he finally decided to think about it again.
He thought about the incident again when he was writing a speech for winning an award for his work in advocating for children who have been abused.
"I started to write it, and that's when it really came out. And then I thought, 'No, tonight is not about me. It's about the kids. I'm going to pack it away again until the right moment,'" he said. "Otherwise, I'm a phony f—. It's like, 'Come on.'"
At the time, he didn't want to make the speech about himself, and even now, he says he only dedicated about a page in his book to the abuse.
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While writing the book, he felt like he 'had to talk about it.'
"It was weird. It was something that, I think, I was probably like 10 or 11. I shouldn't have had to deal with those feelings," he shared.
And now that he's a father, John said if he found out something like this had happened to the 5-year-old son, Billy, who he shares with wife Caitlin McHugh, "that's a totally different story."
John's book will be out on October 24.
He told People that he considers his book a "human story" rather than a "hero story," and it sounds like he'll be opening up about a lot of the experiences that left an impact on his life, including how he really felt about his divorce from Rebecca Romijn in 2004.
"Unless I was a hundred percent forthcoming, what am I doing this for, right? But it was hard," he said.
