FERG Reveals He Was Molested As A Child At A Swimming Pool

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Rapper FERG, who used to be known as ASAP FERG, is opening up about being molested as a child.

The Harlem native revealed his childhood abuse on “Pool,” a cut from his latest album, DAROLD. FERG spoke on how he was inappropriately “touched” at the age of 9 by a man who was much older. He addressed the incident during a recent appearance on The Breakfast Club.

During his interview, he said “It was an incident that happened in a pool when I was a young kid and everybody’s around and everything like that. For me, it was weird and it was one second, but I was like, why?”

He then continued to say how the man was much older than him and how he groped him when he was just nine years old. At first, FERG confided in his cousin because it didn’t feel right keeping it to himself. Years later, FERG decided to tell his mother after they watched the premiere of Precious. At the end of the movie, victims of child abuse shared their stories, which inspired him to do the same.

In his song, he states: “At 10, I was drowned and touched when I was in the pool/All the breath left my body where I couldn’t move/Violated, hand on my private by a bigger dude,” he raps. “Seconds felt like forever, really wasn’t cool/When he seen me ’round the block, he’d smile and laugh/As if we had a little secret, and I hated that/Thinking ’bout what he did really made me mad/Even thought about murder, wanted to kill his ass.”