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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Laura Snapes

Marcus Mumford: ‘I was sexually abused as a child’

Marcus Mumford pictured at the 2022 Met Gala.
Marcus Mumford pictured at the 2022 Met Gala. Photograph: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images

Marcus Mumford, frontman of the band Mumford & Sons, has said that he was the victim of childhood sexual abuse.

“Like lots of people – and I’m learning more and more about this as we go and as I play it to people – I was sexually abused as a child,” he told GQ magazine. “Not by family and not in the church, which might be some people’s assumption. But I hadn’t told anyone about it for 30 years.”

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