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Brendan Gleeson reveals that he was molested by a Christian Brother as a child
IN AN INTERVIEW on a US radio show, actor Brendan Gleeson revealed that he was molested by a Christian Brother as a child.
The actor is currently promoting the US release of Calvary and appeared on NPR’s Bob Edwards Weekend with director John Michael McDonagh to discuss the film.
In the film, Gleeson plays a priest who is confronted by a parishioner about childhood sexual abuse suffered at the hands of a Catholic priest. During his interview with Gleeson and McDonagh, radio host Bob Edwards asked if the pair knew anybody who themselves had been abused by priests as children.
Gleeson then revealed that he himself had once been molested.
The incident happened when Gleeson was in primary school and while he emphasised that the incident was a once-off and that he wasn’t left traumatised, he did reveal that other classmates had endured similar abuse at the hands of the same Christian Brother.
Gleeson went on to say that one of the triumphs of Calvary was that it helped people understand that “abuse is a lifelong sentence” and “not something that you toss aside”.
Calvary, one of the highest-grossing Irish films of 2014, is currently on limited release in the United States where it has won rave reviews and grossed $350,000 in two weekends.
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