Marcus Mumfordhas opened up about his experience with sexual abuse as a young child.
“But I hadn’t told anyone about it for 30 years.”
“That wasn’t a choice in the mind of a child and you knew it.”
Marcus Mumford.Dave Benett/Getty Images
“She was like, ‘What are you talking about?’
“Apparently, it’s very common,” he said.
“I’d had problems breathing all my life.
Not asthma but just, like, catching my breath.”
And so the last three years has just been trying to look at that and correct some balance.”
In the expansive interview, Mumford also addressed bandmateWinston Marshall’s departure from Mumford & Sons.
“I actually really begged him not to leave,” Mumford said.
“And I think Win probably agrees.
I don’t know.
But I should think he probably agrees.
Which is part of the reason why he wanted to quit.
He wanted to do a different thing.”
