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'In Treatment' star Gabriel Byrne says it took him years to get over child sex abuse by priest

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ANTOINETTE KELLY
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Published Monday, January 18, 2010, 10:35 AM
Updated Monday, January 18, 2010, 11:13 AM
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Gabriel Byrne: 'In Treatment' star says it took him years to get over sexual abuse suffered when he was an altar boy
Gabriel Byrne: 'In Treatment' star says it took him years to get over sexual abuse suffered when he was an altar boy

Irish actor Gabriel Byrne - who plays Dr. Paul Weston in the HBO smash series "In Treatment" has admitted it took him years to get over sexual abuse inflicted on him as a child by the Christian Brothers.

Byrne, who was talking on Irish TV at the weekend, said "It took many years to come to terms with it and to forgive those incidents that I felt had deeply hurt me."

"Again I didn't think it severely impacted me at the time but when I think about my later life and how I had difficulties with certain issues, there is the real possibility they could have been attributable to that."

"Unfortunately, I experienced some sexual abuse. It was a known and admitted fact of life amongst us that there was this particular man and you didn't want to be left in the dressing room with him," he said.

"It didn't go on over a prolonged period but it happened at a very, very vulnerable moment," Byrne said.

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Posted by shrinnkie246 on Jan 21, 2010, 02:53 AM EST
Geez I'm glad you people have met him and can't wait for another round of IN TREATMENT, but that's not the subject here. By the sounds of it the good doctor should be in treatment himself. Then perhaps we wouldn't have to hear his constant complaints about being abused as a child.
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Posted by Watereskhill on Jan 20, 2010, 10:38 PM EST
He is a rivetting Artist on the screen whatever the foibles of his own life; past suffering or study. He gives a movie guts.
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Posted by ciarrai on Jan 20, 2010, 05:45 PM EST
We can't wait for the year's show to come on HBO. We really enjoy it. We met Byrne in an ice cream shop in NYC.
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Posted by aaaaaaaaa on Jan 20, 2010, 02:35 PM EST
If I read anymore complaints from Gabriel Byrne about being sexually abused while studying to be a priest so help me I'll scream. I understand that he was hurt by it and it may have been the reason for "certain issues" later in life, but, please, do we have to continually hear about it. Maybe he should go into therapy.


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