In an exclusive interview with People published on Wednesday (April 26th), Kevin Smith opened up about the “complete break from reality” he experienced last year. The Clerks director spent a month at Arizona's Sierra Tucson treatment center, where he received therapy centered on traumatic incidents from his childhood.
Smith explained that he previously coped with these experiences by hiding behind a “larger than life” public persona. “It was scary,” he said. “At that moment, I wouldn't have been averse to not being around any longer. I called a friend and said, 'I'm in a weird, dark place. I need to go somewhere and get help.'”
The Jay and Silent Bob star recalled a traumatic incident that occurred when he was six years old, during which an older boy that he didn’t know forced him to engage sexually with a six-year-old girl. “Luckily some adult did walk past the alley and was like, ‘What’s going on?'” he said.
