Marcus Mumford: ‘I was sexually abused as a child’

Mumford & Sons frontman has said that his debut solo single is about the first of a string of unhealthy sexual experiences at a really early age'

Marcus Mumford, frontman of the band Mumford & Sons, has said that he was the victim of childhood sexual abuse.

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," he told GQ magazine. Not by family and not in the church, which might be some people's assumption. But I hadn't told anyone about it for 30 years."

I can still taste you and I hate it
That wasn't a choice in the mind of a child and you knew it
You took the first slice of me and you ate it raw
Ripped it in with your teeth and your lips like a cannibal
You fucking animal