Content warning: This story may include topics that could make some readers feel uncomfortable. In a profile interview with GQ, the High School Musical star detailed an evening in Spain when he “scream-cried for three and a half hours”.
Bassett then candidly discussed his experiences of “sexual abuse” publicly for the first time. “I experienced sexual abuse a lot in my childhood,” he told GQ. “I didn’t remember that until last year, which is pretty insane,” Bassett continued. “I buried it so far.
And when I was a teen, a much older man routinely abused me, and I wasn’t able to see it for what it was at the time.” The 20-year-old explained that one of his new songs, Set Me Free, details how he processed the ordeal. “I’ve been runnin’ away,