John Stamos claims he was sexually abused aged 11 in stomach-turning incident-Aisha Nozari-Entertainment – Metro

John Stamos detailed the alleged abuse in a new interview (Picture: The Drew Barrymore Show)

John Stamos has claimed he was sexually abused at the age of ‘10 or 11’.

Disturbingly, the 60-year-old Full House star alleges it was his babysitter who abused him and in a stomach-turning account said he would ‘play dead’ to get the babysitter to stop.

Stamos revealed the memories of the alleged assaults only hit him when he was writing his upcoming memoir If You Would Have Told Me.

The TV legend’s book is due out on October 24.

He told People in a new interview: ‘I remembered it slightly. It has always been there, but I packed it away as people do, right?’

Stamos added that even though the alleged abuse was ‘always in the back’ of his head he had previously dismissed it and didn’t tell anybody.

Stamos alleges it was his babysitter who abused him (Picture: Getty)

The TV legend’s book is due out on October 24 (Picture: Henry Holt and Co)

He said: ‘It was like you’re playing dead so they’ll stop. But it wasn’t totally aggressive. I don’t know. It was not good.

‘I was probably like 10 or 11 [at the time]. I shouldn’t have had to deal with those feelings.’

Stamos added that he has written about his memories of being abused in his autobiography, but said it was only ‘a page or something’ as he ‘didn’t want the book to be about it’.

Stamos is best known for appearing on Full House (Picture: Disney)

Nor did he want his forthcoming memoir to focus solely on his split from Rebecca Romijn.

Stamos and 50-year-old actress Romijn have rarely spoken about their breakup since they parted ways in 2004.

Stamos doesn’t want his forthcoming memoir to focus solely on his split from Rebecca Romijn (Picture: FilmMagic)

They finalised their divorce the following year and Stamos moved on with actress Caitlin McHugh, 37, while Romijn started a relationship with actor Jerry O’Connell.

Romijn admitted in a 2022 episode of The Talk that she misses ‘a lot’ of things about Stamos, saying: ‘Divorce feels like a failure… and there were a lot of things that I had to let go of that were very sad. I have a lot of really fun memories.’

Metro.co.uk has reached out to Stamos’ reps for comment.

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