Jonathan Majors revealed in a brand new interview that he was the sufferer of sexual abuse “from each women and men” from the age of 9.
The 35-year-old actor was thought of considered one of Hollywood’s quickest rising stars previous to his December 2023 conviction for assaulting and harassing his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari.
In April 2024, he was sentenced to a 12 months in an in-person batterer intervention program in Los Angeles, California. A number of of his main movie tasks had been additionally cancelled, with Marvel transferring away from positioning his character Kang as their subsequent antagonist and renaming 2026’s Avengers: The Kang Dynasty to Avengers: Doomsday,
Talking in a brand new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Majors stated that along with the home violence program, he additionally underwent remedy which introduced up childhood trauma he had not confronted.
“I handled sexual abuse from each women and men from the time I used to be 9,” stated Majors. “From people who find themselves purported to take care of you, within the absence of a father. I used to be f***ed up.”
Majors’s father, who was within the Air Power, had left the household when his son was 8. Majors says he solely just lately spoke to his mom about what had occurred to him, and that she apologized for being unable to guard him.
“I’m like, ‘It’s not even a difficulty, mother. I simply need you to know. And now we will all get busy and proceed to attach and develop and be taught from it, as a result of it’s one thing that was in our household,’” stated Majors.
He added: “There are not any excuses, however by getting assist, you start to know issues about your self.”
Majors is presently selling Journal Desires, a sports activities drama which is lastly set to be launched two years after the movie was dropped by its authentic distributor following the actor’s assault conviction.
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Last month, Creed star Michael B Jordan said he was “proud” of Majors and that he would work with the actor again despite his assault conviction.
The pair starred together as rivals in Creed III in 2023.
Speaking to GQ, Jordan, 38, stated: “He’s doing nice, simply acquired engaged. I’m pleased with his resilience and his power by means of all of it, and his dealing with of it. I’m glad he’s good. That’s my boy…”
“Sure. Sure”, added Jordan after being requested if he would work with the Majors sooner or later.
