John Stamoshas revealed that he was sexually abused as a child.
“I do so muchadvocacyfor the [survivors],” he said.
“I felt like I remembered it slightly.
John Stamos.Allen Berezovsky/FilmMagic
It has always been there, but I packed it away as people do, right?”
Representatives for Stamos did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.
“I started to write it, and that’s when it really came out,” he recalled.
“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.’
Otherwise, I’m a phony f—.
It’s like, ‘Come on.'”
“It was a page or something, but I felt I had to talk about it.
I shouldn’t have had to deal with those feelings.”
That’s a totally different story."
“I did set out to write a hero story,” Stamos told PEOPLE.
Because with the hero story, that’s bulls—.
And unless I was a hundred percent forthcoming, what am I doing this for, right?"
Stamos’ new memoir,If You Would Have Told Me,hits shelves Oct. 24.
