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Brendan Gleeson: 'I was molested by a Christian Brother at primary school'

Movie star Brendan Gleeson has told how he was molested by a Christian Brother at primary school

But the Calvary actor – who plays a priest in the Irish flick – insisted he wasn’t “traumatised” by the incident.

Speaking in the US on radio, he said: “It was just one of those things where something odd happened.

“Yeah it’s odd I remember a particular Christian brother dropped the hand on me at one point.”

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“It was not very traumatic and it was not very, it was not at all sustained, it was just one of these things where something odd happened.”

“I remember that was in primary school and frankly I was not traumatised by it at all. It was just a bit weird and obviously the vibe was that he never came at me again.

“The same guy was in secondary school and I remember a couple of us starting trading stories and really that he was a bit off.

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“But nobody ever thought to tell anybody, nobody ever thought to tell even my parents who would have been enraged and would not have taken it lightly. I never even thought about telling them.”

Last week, Goss.ie told how Calvary had become a massive hit in America after taking close to €260,000 at their box office.

And Gleeson has now been tipped to pick up an Oscar nomination for the role.

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