Cole Sprouse is opening up about trauma.
The 29-year-old Riverdale actor got candid about being a star at a young age and working on the Disney Channel in The Suite Life of Zack and Cody in an interview with the New York Times.
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“My brother [Dylan Sprouse] and I used to get quite a bit of, ‘Oh, you made it out! Oh, you’re unscathed!’ No,” he said.
“The young women on the channel we were on [Disney Channel] were so heavily sexualized from such an earlier age than my brother and I that there’s absolutely no way that we could compare our experiences, and every single person going through that trauma has a unique experience.”
“When we talk about child stars going nuts, what we’re not actually talking about is how fame is a trauma,” he continued.
“So I’m violently defensive against people who mock some of the young women who were on the channel when I was younger because I don’t feel like it adequately comprehends the humanity of that experience and what it takes to recover,” Cole said.
“And, to be quite honest, as I have now gone through a second big round of this fame game as an adult, I’ve noticed the same psychological effects that fame yields upon a group of young adults as I did when I was a child.”
He also said that “people have an easier time hiding it when they’re older.”
