Charlamagne Tha God Credits Tyler Perry Interview Helped Him Start To Process His Trauma
Charlamagne Tha God recently credited mogul Tyler Perry with assisting him in coming to the realization that the sexual trauma he endured growing up wasn’t normal or acceptable. The radio and TV host opened up about his therapy journey discussing his road to healing after realizing decades later that he was molested by his cousin’s ex-wife at 8 years old. For the majority he admitted that he like other young men felt the sexual experience interaction with an “older woman” was a badge of honor, however, had the slow realization that he was taken advantage of after watching Tyler Perry’s 2010 interview with Oprah Winfrey.
“When I first watched that interview, I wasn’t nowhere near doing any kind of work on myself, but I saw it in real-time back in the day when he was on ‘Oprah,’” he explained. “I watched him crying and I remember saying to myself, ‘Well, you know, what’s wrong with him?’ Because I think the way that men process sexual assault is different. We don’t look at it as sexual assault, we look at it as ‘I was 8, you know, getting it popping with an older woman.’”
Charlamagne explained his ability to process all his trauma came with age. “I literally remember me and my guys at that age having conversations about being with older women back then,” he said. “None of us processed it as sexual assault. That’s not something that I processed as sexual assault until I was in my late 30s. Then I just understood it more because you just don’t know what that did to you.”
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