Lewis Howes Reveals 25-Year Secret Sexual Assault by Man When He Was Five Years Old

What was said

"When I was five, I was raped by a man that I didn't know. And for 25 years, no one knew about it. I didn't tell anyone. I told a professor my freshman year in college. I said, you know, something happened to me, but I didn't tell them what. Parents didn't know, friends didn't know. I never told anyone exactly what happened."

Howes publicly discloses for the first time that he was sexually assaulted at age five by an unknown man and kept the secret for 25 years before revealing it in an emotional intelligence workshop at age 30. The revelation came after he had a violent altercation during a pickup basketball game, which made him realize his unprocessed trauma was manifesting as chronic anger and aggression despite outward success.