Marcus Mumford Shares He Was Sexually Abused at 6 Years Old

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Mumford & Sons frontman Marcus Mumford is opening up about sexual abuse he experienced as a child. In a new interview with, Mumford, who is set to release his debut solo album next month, told the outlet that he was sexually abused at the age of six — something he discussed in one of his first solo records, «Cannibal.» «Like lots of people — and I’m learning more and more about this as we go and as I play it to people — I was sexually abused as a child,» Mumford told the outlet. «Not by family and not in the church, which might be some people’s assumption.

But I hadn’t told anyone about it for 30 years.»It's something Mumford revealed that he hadn't even revealed to his mother until playing the track for her.

A few days later, she asked her son what the song was about.«I was like, 'Yeah, it’s about the abuse thing,'» he recalled. «She was like, 'What are you talking about?' So once we get through the trauma of that moment for her, as a mother, hearing that and her wanting to protect and help and all that stuff, it’s objectively f**king hilarious to tell your mom about your abuse in a f**king song, of all things.»The song is the first on the album, with «Grace,» a track about the ensuing conversation he had with his mother, coming in at number two.«I felt like it had to go first,» he shared. «I started sort of apologizing for it, in my head.

But it’s like, that’s not right, either.»While Mumford is talking openly about his trauma now, he didn't address it until 2019 after a slew of addictive behaviors and a dependence on alcohol pushed those around him to stage an intervention, which ultimately led him to enter therapy.«That thing that happened when I was six, that was the first of a string of really unusual, unhealthy.