Via NY Post:
As he approaches his 63rd birthday later this month, he is unpacking emotional baggage, not gridiron memories.
“I was raped,” Gastineau reveals almost matter of factly. “But I held it in for so long. Maybe cancer has made me confront it.”
He says it started when he was only 11. His abuser was a man from Mexico who worked on the family’s 80-acre ranch in the White Mountains of Arizona.
“Can you imagine, somebody like myself, a football player, a big bad guy, getting raped at that age? He scared me to death,” says Gastineau, recalling being “passive” and afraid of his own shadow as a kid. “You would never believe I was going to grow up to be a football player.”
He says the abuse lasted until he was 14, and he buried the horrific memories until he met his third wife, Jo Ann, whom he married 12 years ago.
“I didn’t even think about it until I married her and I could trust someone to tell,” he says, sitting across from Jo Ann in the living room of their suburban home, just outside of Trenton. “But I held it in for so long.”
Gastineau was a bad man on the football field.
You hate to hear these type of stories..
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