Luke Evans opens up about homophobic bullying from ‘evil little b**tards’ at school
Posted by Marcus Wratten on October 28, 2024 10:17 am
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The Hobbit star Luke Evans has spoken about the homophobic bullying he suffered at school, which left him feeling “dirty” and a “like [he] had a disease”.
The star revealed in his new memoir, Boy from the Valleys: An Unexpected Journey, that fellow pupils called him a “Jovey bender” because he grew up as a Jehovah’s Witness and they assumed he was gay.
“I was bullied for being gay before I even understood what it meant,” he wrote. “The worst nickname was Jovey bender because it combined two aspects of my identity that could never be reconciled – homosexuality is not accepted in the religion.
“It’s a terribly dark place to be as a child, knowing you’re somehow ‘wrong’, but with no idea why that is or how you can
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