Will Young recalls being manipulated into staying silent amid sexual abuse and violence at school

Pop Idol winner Will Younger and different youngsters had been guilted into protecting quiet about violence and sexual abuse in school (Image: WireImage)

The Depart Proper Now singer went to a personal prep college as a baby and younger teenager, the place he says sexual and bodily abuse was rife.

Academics, he stated, could be drunk, violent and abusive, and ripped telephones out of the wall so scared youngsters couldn’t name their dad and mom or contact Childline.

Will went to the preparatory boarding college for a number of years, and was later identified with PTSD over the abuse he had lived by.

The singer first opened up concerning the horror in a 2021 interview with The Guardian, and has now revealed how he and different youngsters had been manipulated into protecting quiet.

Chatting with Mariella Frostrup on Occasions Radio, he stated that ‘sarcastically,’ he felt ‘very lucky’ to be despatched to the personal college.

His dad and mom ‘didn’t have some huge cash,’ and the varsity would continually remind him how exhausting his dad and mom had been working to ship him there, a kind of messaging Will factors out ‘typically occurs when persons are in abusive conditions.’

Will was made to really feel very lucky that he was attending the personal college the place abuse was rife (Image: WireImage)

‘My dad simply arrange his enterprise. It was a recession… so you retain quiet as a baby, Completely.’

Will stated that if his ‘unbelievable’ dad and mom had ever caught wind of the bodily and sexual abuse, ‘they'd have taken me out of that faculty in two seconds’.

The previous Pop Idol icon reiterated the horrors he and different youngsters had been subjected to on the college, and stated that for 5 years, a few of the adults he lived amongst ‘had been sexual predators’.

‘We had an individual that might have a look at our penises, and we’d should cowl up ourselves within the baths and showers,’ he instructed the present.

Will’s twin brother Rupert additionally attended the varsity; he died by suicide in 2010 (Image: Getty)

‘We had been allowed tohave a telephone, and that was ripped out of the wall twice.

‘I noticed a baby thrown throughout the room, I noticed a baby’s head bashed into the radiator.’

Will traces his PTSD again to the abuse and concern he suffered on the college.

His twin brother, Rupert Younger, additionally attended; he died by suicide in 2020 after battling melancholy for 20 years.