Not asthma but just, like, catching my breath.” “Once you basically unhook the denial and start the process of removing some suppression, then it’s very natural for that stuff to come out. “Apparently, it’s very common,” Mumford said. It was here, he explains, that he began addressing his trauma - and talking about his experiences for the first time caused him to be physically sick. ![]() “I was like, ‘Yeah, it’s about the abuse thing.’ She was like, ‘What are you talking about?’ So once we get through the trauma of that moment for her, as a mother, hearing that and her wanting to protect and help and all that stuff, it’s objectively f*cking hilarious to tell your mum about your abuse in a f*cking song, of all things.” That conversation sparked much of Mumford’s forthcoming solo record, and the artist says he knew afterwards that “Cannibal” needed to be the opening track.Įlsewhere in the interview, Mumford spoke about reaching “rock bottom” and seeking therapy following the release of Mumford & Son’s fourth album, Delta. ![]() “Couple of days later, ‘Can I ask what that song’s about?’” Mumford recalled. He and his mum later spoke about the track after he played her its direct, gut-wrenching opening lyrics for the first time: “I can still taste you and I hate it/That wasn't a choice in the mind of a child and you knew it.” But I hadn’t told anyone about it for 30 years.” Mumford was six years old when the abuse took place.ĭuring lockdown, the Mumford & Sons frontman’s parents moved in next door, and shared a wall with his recording studio. “Not by family and not in the church, which might be some people’s assumption. “Like lots of people, and I’m learning more and more about this as we go and as I play it to people, I was sexually abused as a child,” Mumford told GQ. Recollections of his past directly fed into the deeply emotional opener “Cannibal” from his forthcoming debut solo album called (Self-Titled), out on September 16. Marcus Mumford, best known as the lead singer of Mumford & Sons, has opened up publicly for the first time about his harrowing experience of child abuse. ![]() Content warning: This article contains references to child sex abuse.
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