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Director and actor Kevin Smith checked into a mental health facility<\/a> after suffering a “complete break from reality” in January 2022.<\/p>\n

“It was scary,” Smith, 52, admitted in a new interview.<\/p>\n

“At that moment, I wouldn’t have been averse to not being around any longer,” the “Clerks” director told People magazine. “I called a friend and said, ‘I’m in a weird, dark place. I need to go somewhere and get help.'”<\/p>\n

Smith checked into the Sierra Tucson treatment center in Arizona, where he worked on trauma he’d experienced from a handful of moments in his childhood.<\/p>\n

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The “Good Will Hunting” co-executive producer<\/a> revealed he was sexually abused at the age of 6 when an older kid instructed him to participate in sex acts with another young girl in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Smith explained he didn’t think of the encounter as sexual abuse<\/a> until speaking with a therapist decades later. The therapist told him, “When a third party is instructing you to do something against your core values like that, that’s sexual abuse.”<\/p>\n

The actor also experienced trauma when he was made fun of for his “gut” by a teacher at the age of 9.<\/p>\n

“I felt disgusting, like I didn’t matter,” he told the outlet. “That’s when ‘the other guy’ started to appear. I decided to be entertaining and make people love me before they noticed I was fat.”<\/p>\n

Smith created a public persona \u2014 which he refers to as “the other guy” \u2014 to hide behind.<\/p>\n

“I was already a self-loathing mess,” he admitted. “‘The other guy’ became my favorite piece of clothing to wear. I’d just let him take over.”<\/p>\n

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It was hard to participate in group therapy with veterans who were suffering from PTSD, according to Smith.<\/p>\n

“In the beginning, it was tough to share when somebody’s talking about watching their friend get killed and I’m like, ‘Well, my fourth-grade teacher told me I was fat,'” he recalled.<\/p>\n

“But I learned that there’s no differentiation [between levels of trauma] to the human nervous system. Internally, trauma is trauma.”<\/p>\n

The filmmaker is releasing a first-person account of his mental health journey in an attempt to spread the word.<\/p>\n

“I’m terrified to see everyone’s reaction to [all of this],” Smith said. “But I know there’s somebody out there who doesn’t know this stuff \u2014 like I didn’t \u2014 who could get something out of this.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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