Carly Simon has revealed that she had sexual encounters with a teenage boy when she was just seven years old.
“It was heinous,” she told People in an interview published Wednesday. “It changed my view about sex for a long time.”
The now 70-year-old singer-songwriter said she told her sisters about the relationship, but neither of them believed her, until she showed them an advanced copy of her memoir, “Boys in the Trees,” out next week.
“Neither of them were at all aware of what had happened to me,” she continued. “I told them the first year that it was happening, and they thought I was just trying to be one of the bigger girls.”
However, her mother banned the boy from their house one summer, and at the time, Simon was “devastated because I thought I was in a romance.”
The “You’re So Vain” singer also said that she tried to hide it from her child psychologist because she “wanted to keep it going.”
“I knew I had to keep it quiet,” she said. “I wanted to keep it quiet because I wanted to keep it going. And even when Dr. Frunzhaufer thought that he could get to the bottom of it with ‘Twinkle twinkle little star,’ I didn’t want to tell him. I said, ‘Yes he touched me on the chair. I was happy!’”
Carly Simon’s interview with People will hit newsstands this Friday.