Content warning: This story discusses sexual and physical abuse.
Christina Applegate is sharing a painful part of her past.
The Bad Moms star candidly opens up about overcoming the most difficult moments of her childhood in her forthcoming memoir You With the Sad Eyes, including being molested by a babysitter when she was 5.
“I knew every part of it was wrong,” Christina told People in an interview published Feb. 25. “I felt sick and scared and sad. I never fully felt comfortable being touched, and that’s true still.”
“I’ve never felt comfortable with it my whole life, really,” she added, “and all because of that girl forcing me to do something I barely understood but that I knew was shameful.”
In her memoir, releasing March 3, Christina also details her mom’s struggle with heroin addiction, as well as the physical abuse Christina endured form one of her mom’s boyfriends, affected her as a child.
“I think I had kind of the worst situation from 3 to 7,” she shared. “But there was stuff like that going on in all our homes. Single moms, men coming in and out, drugs.”
