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Actor Terrence Howard makes harrowing confession about being sexually active from the age of four
Oscar nominated actor, Terrence Howard, recently revealed how he “lost his innocence” at a very young child after he was molested by “older girls”.
The 57-year-old Empire star opened up about his harrowing experiences during a recent appearance on the PBD podcast.
He shared how his experience had left him with a “distorted” perspective on sex and relationships.
Terrence announced that he “had more sex” between the ages of four and 13 than he has had in the entirety of his adult life.
He confessed that this period, in which he estimates that he was intimate with over 100 girls, “really messed him up”.
He thought sexual abuse was normal
The actor was very open about how “having [sexual] intercourse” in his early childhood gave him a “skewed” view of how he should behave around women.
Podcast host Patrick Bet-David was shocked to hear that his first sexual encounter was at just four-years-old with older girls who lived in the same neighbourhood.
“All the kids in the neighbourhood was doing that” Terrence told the host.
“It felt like it was wrong. But I didn't know. I wish I had never done that. I would have been a completely different person.
“It gave me a skewed view of interaction. I kept thinking that everybody was promiscuous like that."
His experience influenced his own parenting
The actor said his parents had no idea what was going on, as he was often left alone when his father was at work and his mother was getting her education.
“My father wouldn't have known, but when you're not supervised...[we] we're just fooling around. We played hide and go get - pants up, pants down," he said.
However he added that he “wishes” that they did discover what was going on.
The father-of-five believes his experience has made him “so super protective of [his] children” and “other people’s children.
"I'm just overly protective because I wanted somebody...I'm trying to protect myself” he said.
Terrence shares daughters Aubrey and Heaven, and son Hunter with his first wife Lori McCommas, and two sons, Qirin and Hero with his third wife Mira Pak.
The Chicago-born actor put a stop to the molesting when he was 15 and “started seeing where he could head to”.
Sadly he said "It takes you a long time to get back to who and what you really are," because the whole experience at such a young age “really messed [him] up”.