Robert Evans
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I don't have any evidence.
I'm not aware of any evidence.
It's just kind of a thing people wonder.
Because his relationship with his mom is so weird.
Yeah, it may not have involved actual molestation.
Sorry, I cut you off.
Not that we know of.
Like, obviously, there are priests who were around the area he grew up in who molested kids, because that's true everywhere there were Catholic churches.
But I haven't there's he never alleges that and I don't have any evidence of it.
Right.
So we can we can ponder this.
And obviously, it is not uncommon for people who wind up being child molesters to have been molested or to have had like very early traumatic sexual experiences.
But that doesn't have to happen for someone to be a child molester.
Sometimes people are just child molesters because they suck, right?
Anyway, his childhood is interrupted by World War II, the big dub-dub dose, although not in a way that was particularly traumatizing to him.
A lot of British kids in this era have really trauma because they're bombed, right?
Kids in London and stuff are getting bombed and hiding in shelters.
And he gets a bit of that
But he's in a really good area to avoid, like, the worst of that.
He recalls when he was 11 or so and the war started that he and a bunch of local kids were taken out of the city to this rural camp where they did minor manual labor in order to keep them away from bombs.