Child abuse

Stallone argues that hurtful words leave permanent internal scars, especially on children.

“Words are literally verbal bullets that will penetrate you, pierce you, scar your interior forever”

On Purpose with Jay Shetty: SYLVESTER STALLONE: “I Wasn’t Stupid. I Was Just Misunderstood.” (Sep 28, 2026) · Listen from 14:06

Stallone says his parents told him he had cost them their destiny and treated him as a burden.

“they actually said it to my face, where you impeded on our life. You cost us our destiny”

On Purpose with Jay Shetty: SYLVESTER STALLONE: “I Wasn’t Stupid. I Was Just Misunderstood.” (Sep 28, 2026) · Listen from 9:49

Stallone contrasts his mother's claim to have no regrets with his own sense of living on regret.

“I live on regrets. I can make a castle out of regrets. I mean, when people say I have no regrets, I go, bullshit”

The Daily: Sylvester Stallone Hid His Struggles for Decades. Now He’s Coming Clean. (Sep 26, 2026) · Listen from 33:23

Stallone says his emotionally deprived childhood made him tough in an unhealthy way and delayed his capacity for real love until around age 70.

“I literally haven't figured out real, real, real, real true love until, you know, like 70”

The Daily: Sylvester Stallone Hid His Struggles for Decades. Now He’s Coming Clean. (Sep 26, 2026) · Listen from 6:39

Druski said he forgave his father both mentally and face to face, arguing a grudge is a burden on the person holding it.

“A grudge is on you as a burden. That's a burden to everything. It's not just physical. It's a mental thing that can really rot people's brain out”

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Druski: They're Lying To You About Overnight Success! (Sep 24, 2026) · Listen from 15:52

Druski argued he could not be broken by career pressure because he was already broken at an early age.

“how could I be broken? If I feel like I've already gone to my furthest extent, I can only continue to push myself to higher levels”

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Druski: They're Lying To You About Overnight Success! (Sep 24, 2026) · Listen from 13:25

Druski said his brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and suggested he never found a coping mechanism like comedy.

“He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder as we continued to go through puberty and got older. Whereas for me, I feel like I might have found a coping mechanism with comedy”

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Druski: They're Lying To You About Overnight Success! (Sep 24, 2026) · Listen from 10:00

Druski described his household as emotionally broken rather than financially poor, noting his father was a United Airlines pilot and his mother worked for the CDC.

“We were a broken home. We weren't a broke home. My dad was a airline pilot for United Airlines for entirely my whole younger life. My mom worked for the CDC”

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Druski: They're Lying To You About Overnight Success! (Sep 24, 2026) · Listen from 6:44

Winfrey said that when she contemplated suicide as a teenager she did not truly want to die but wanted the pain to end.

“even when I was thinking about ending it all for myself, I didn't really want to end it”

On Purpose with Jay Shetty: OPRAH WINFREY: The Life Lessons That Changed Everything (Sep 16, 2026) · Listen from 40:02

Winfrey estimated she did 200 to 250 shows on sexual assault and molestation while searching for answers about her own experience.

“So over the years, I probably did 200, 250 shows on sexual assault, molestation, children, because I was in search of the answers for myself”

On Purpose with Jay Shetty: OPRAH WINFREY: The Life Lessons That Changed Everything (Sep 16, 2026) · Listen from 35:23

Quinn initially said she believed Sylvia and Guojun were good parents despite the California proceedings, a statement she later retracted by email.

“The proceedings out there are going to continue, and I feel that these are good parents, despite what's going on”

In The Dark: The Journey, Episode 4: The Courts (Oct 6, 2026) · Listen from 38:59

Stacey King says that while she knew the baby was not hers, she felt compelled to protect the child after learning of the abuse allegations.

“no, she's not mine, but you want to protect a child, an innocent being that you are carrying”

In The Dark: The Journey, Episode 4: The Courts (Oct 6, 2026) · Listen from 1:26

Neumann says his childhood involved nearly every bad experience a boy can have, including the worst ones.

“you get to checkmark with me almost all of them, including the really bad ones that we don't like to talk about”

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Adam Neumann: The Real Story Behind WeWork, A $4 Billion Cab Ride, And Surviving A $460 Million Debt (Sep 28, 2026) · Listen from 4:51

Ross reports that former students of the group's children's school allege they were abused and traumatized.

“they were hurt, they were abused, they were traumatized by harsh treatment within the schools”

Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Part Two: Cult Leaders Target You At Your Weakest. Never Confess This To Them | Rick Alan Ross (Sep 23, 2026) · Listen from 44:57

Shepard says an expert on child sexual abuse changed how he views his own abuse by an older minor.

“We had this expert who teaches at Johns Hopkins, and she's the head of this program that does nothing but study child sexual abuse”

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard: Lukas Gage (Jul 6, 2026) · Listen from 27:37

Kelly faults parents who let children sleep in Jackson's bed, saying no normal unrelated man wants that.

“Nope, no normal man wants a child in his bed. They just don't”

The Megyn Kelly Show: The TRUTH About Michael Jackson as Biopic Sets Records, and Blake Lively's DOOMED Legal Strategy, with Mark Geragos and Matt Murphy (May 12, 2026) · Listen from 2:08:55

Murphy says sexual abuse allegations arising in custody disputes are so often false that they undermine real victims.

“it's so common that those are false allegations. And it really undermines the integrity of real victims”

The Megyn Kelly Show: The TRUTH About Michael Jackson as Biopic Sets Records, and Blake Lively's DOOMED Legal Strategy, with Mark Geragos and Matt Murphy (May 12, 2026) · Listen from 1:22:01

Robbins recounts that after a fourth-grade sexual incident she did not disclose, she woke with intense dread every morning for three decades.

“But every single morning for three decades, I would wake up and have this intense sense of dread, no matter what was going on”

The Mel Robbins Podcast: Nervous System Reset: Do THIS Every Day to Rewire Your Brain From Stress and Anxiety (Apr 27, 2026) · Listen from 37:48

Nguyen described being tied to a staircase by his father and beaten with all 27 wooden dowels after he skipped school to teach himself to read.

“And my dad tied my hands at the top of the stairs and he broke all 27 dowels on my back”

Ctrl-Alt-Reset: Episode 3: From Chaos to Clarity: Jimmy’s Journey of Awakening (Apr 10, 2025) · Listen from 42:39