Actor, Terry Crews, confesses to porn addiction

NFL player-turned screen actor Terry Crews has used his Facebook page  to air a five-minute statement about the longtime  addiction to pornography that almost wrecked his marriage and distorted all his relationships. 

The video has been viewed over 1.7 million times since he posted February 11.

During the monologue titled "Dirty Little Secret" he said, “It changes the way you think about people. People become objects to be used rather than people to be loved,” and admitted he had to go into “rehab” to deal with the problem.

 "By not telling someone, the addiction becomes powerful. By telling someone it loses its power," he urged.  "For six years now it became my battle to share my addiction and recovery to encourage others to deal with their own pornography addiction."

 Crews has previously said he turned to pornography at the age of 12 to escape the misery of his abusive family of origin, itself marred by addictions. “It medicated me,” he said, but also transformed him.

In time it almost wrecked his marriage, as he pressured his wife to imitate the sexual scenarios he saw depicted on Internet porn sites by young women.

 A Christian himself from a devout family, he married gospel singer Rebecca King and has had four children with her, also raising her stepson from a previous relationship.

Crews has told his story before, but explains in this video that confession is not only good for the soul, it is a cornerstone of recovery from a wide range of substance and behavioural dependencies.

The turning point for him, he indicates, was when his wife found out and said she was leaving.

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*He made some salient points. I hope it helps people battling this addiction.