Dax Shepard Admits Writing About Childhood Abuse in Upcoming Memoir Left Him ‘Pretty Emotional’

Dax Shepard recently revealed that he’s been documenting some tough moments from his childhood in his upcoming memoir.

The Armchair Expert podcast host opened up about the sexual abuse he experienced as a child during the Monday, March 2, episode of the show after guest Marcus Mumford spoke about detailing a similar situation in Mumford and Sons’ song “Cannibal.”

“I want to bond with you on this experience, which is, I have for years on here been acknowledging that I had been molested, and that was its own hurdle to just say that,” Shepard, 51, said. “And I got quite comfortable being able to say that. That was fine.”

He continued, “Now I’m writing a memoir, and last year really the whole year was about, do I have the balls to write down the details of this?”

“Because the details were always gonna be mine,” the Hit & Run star added. “I didn’t want anyone to be envisioning me. It’s weird that that was still some wall between my shame.”

“I bet it took me four months to tell that story,” he added. “And when I’m writing it, I cannot help but thinking of people knowing this about me and how still exposed that feels.”