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Nihal Pillai, the Malayalam actor known for his portrayals in movies like Mumbai Police and Tiyaan, opened up about his traumatic phase in his childhood, where he shared experiences of sexual abuse, which still haunts him.
The actor shared that he decided to speak out after getting to know about a similar case, which involved someone close to him.
“I decided to speak about this after hearing from someone close to me about what happened to their child. Cases of child sexual abuse have been increasing lately. I, too, went through something similar. I never thought I would ever talk about it publicly. I faced sexual abuse two or three times, and two of those incidents were deeply traumatic," said the actor in a recent video titled ‘The Most Traumatic Experience in My Childhood’.
Describing the two incidents that affected him, he shared, “Near the house where I lived, there was a home where a staff member from a shoe shop stayed. I must have been around eight or nine years old. One of the men from the shop used to call us, saying he would give us football stickers. One day, he said he’d give us more stickers if we came inside."
“There were three of us children. He told us we’d get big stickers if we went in. I can’t remember exactly whether he touched our private parts or tried to, but I do remember him calling another boy inside and trying to pull down his shorts. After that, none of us ever went back there. The smell of that room still stays with me," Pillai described the traumatic encounter.
The second encounter Nihal faced was during his visit to Kuwait, as he narrowly escaped another attempted abuse by an Arab national as a child by quickly avoiding the situation.
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