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Howard Carpendale Reveals Childhood Sexual Abuse in Forthcoming Memoir

Pre-release excerpts from Unerwartet detail assaults by a family acquaintance, with publication set for Nov. 26.

Overview

  • The singer recounts incidents at age ten in Durban after a cinema outing with an English sailor known as “Archie.”
  • He writes that the man touched him in a park and that similar encounters occurred two more times.
  • Carpendale says he told his parents only after the man stopped visiting, and they remained silent.
  • He reflects that the perpetrator “could have killed me,” while stressing he does not wish to blame his late parents.
  • Carpendale previously said on Instagram that writing Unerwartet resurfaced long-suppressed feelings, and current reports cite no investigation.