HOME and Away star Mat Stevenson has revealed he was raped as an 18 year old.
The actor, 56, played Adam Cameron on the Australian soap between 1989 and 1994, has told how he was attacked by two men in a horrifying ordeal.
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Speaking about his ordeal, he told The Sydney Morning Herald how it happened after he attended a meeting to become a real estate agent.
However after the event he was given a drink but began feeling dizzy.
He added to the newspaper: “This other bloke [then] came out of nowhere. I was paralysed, I was a strong young kid, I was a good sportsman, but I was paralysed.”
He was then raped by the two men and blacked out.
Mat revealed he regained consciousness the next day in the same room, but he was alone.
“I was in a fair bit of pain, and I was late for work,” he said.
Struggling with what happened, Mat revealed he confided in his dad, adding: “I told my dad, I said, ‘I think I’ve just been raped’, and he ignored it.”
And the day after his ordeal, he received a phone call offering him a role in Neighbours.
He later went on to become a household name in rival soap Home and Away before quitting after five years playing character Adam.
Years later Mat revealed that he’d quit the soap for love after deciding to turn his back on fame in order to marry and have a family.
He said in 2019 to the Daily Telegraph: “After I left Home and Away, I travelled for three years and when I came back I was 27.
“I met a woman that I loved and we wanted a family,’ he told The Daily Telegraph.
“And with that comes responsibility so I sought out some secure work and that’s the government role I have been working in ever since.”
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The actor now works for the Australian government as an investigator.
He shares two daughters, 24 and 21, with his wife.
