Former England and Liverpool footballer Andy Carroll has opened up on his sexual assault after Fame Academy dance teacher Kevin Adams was named as his attacker.
Adams, now 59, was convicted at Chelmsford Crown Courtroom and sentenced to twenty months in jail in 2023.
Carroll, 37, revealed the title of the ‘superstar mate’ who attacked him after being made conscious that Adams’s title seems in publicly-available court docket paperwork.
‘It was consuming me alive inside for thus lengthy,’ he mentioned on Piers Morgan‘s Soccer Uncensored. ‘There’s sure issues you may’t recover from, and I am going to by no means, ever recover from that. However now I do know that folks can see who I used to be then, in that point, and what I have been via they usually assist me and help me.
‘Till two weeks in the past, when it got here out, nonetheless at the back of my head I used to be like, “When is it going to drop? When is the title (going to) come out?” It was actually, actually tough.
‘So when the title got here out, I type of freaked out and I used to be similar to, “I do not need to converse to anybody”. And I shut myself away. Earlier than that I used to be type of alright. It was on the market, that occurred. I am at Dagenham in the intervening time and the lads there have been unbelievable, the employees and all the things. However then when the title was prepared to come back out, I simply panicked and I simply did not know what to do.
Andy Carroll (proper), pictured with girlfriend Lou Teasdale, has opened up on his sexual abuse, admitting he’ll ‘always remember it’
Kevin Adams was sentenced to twenty months in jail in 2023 for sexually assaulting Carroll
‘The social media feedback that I have been getting and receiving, that it is giving me just a little little bit of help to say, “Yeah, go on then, get it on the market and other people will concentrate on this as a result of nobody talks about it”.’
Adams appeared as a coach on the BBC1 expertise present in 2002, in addition to Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two in 2021.
Carroll – who now performs for Nationwide League South membership Dagenham & Redbridge and serves as assistant supervisor – shared in his new guide, Proudly owning It, that he skilled the ‘traumatic’ assault a number of years in the past however solely determined ‘on the final minute’ to element it, following prolonged discussions along with his writer.
The footballer revealed he wakened after having a ‘few drinks’ to seek out his ‘superstar mate’ making an attempt to offer him oral intercourse.
Carroll added: ‘I have been beating myself up about it and as quickly as I’ve mentioned it, the help that I’ve acquired has been huge. And I feel that is the primary factor actually for me, that if I mentioned that 5 years in the past when it occurred, possibly I’d have felt loads higher every now and then bought over it.
‘It is tough to really converse his title. Speaking about it’s arduous, and, I am not over it, and I am going to in all probability by no means recover from it, however I do really feel just a little bit relieved that it is on the market.
‘Individuals can see what I have been via. My time again at Newcastle wasn’t nice. There was clearly that occurring within the background… there was quite a lot of issues occurring and I used to be struggling and I in all probability did not have the help that I wanted. And now I really feel like I do and I really feel like I do with the general public as properly. I feel persons are coming as much as me in video games and like good feedback.’
Carroll defined he was assaulted the night after a Newcastle United recreation when Adams invited himself spherical to observe a boxing match.
The striker, 37, shared in his new guide, Proudly owning It, that he skilled the ‘traumatic’ assault a number of years in the past
Describing their relationship, he wrote: ‘He was at all times asking me and my ex to exit with him and even buys me garments. He’s divorced with children however I can not shift the sensation he likes me greater than a platonic manner.
‘Every time I stumble upon him at events he’s at all times with younger boys.’
He continued: ‘I used to be enjoying down south someplace and on my manner house this man texts to ask what I’m as much as.
‘When he texts once more to ask if he can come spherical to observe the boxing with me, my companion tells me to cease pieing him off (placing him off).
‘He takes over the kitchen, mixing drinks. I begin to really feel lightheaded and assume has he slipped me one thing. “Proper, time for mattress”, I say to him, “I am going to order you a taxi”.
‘”Oh no,” he says, “I am going to keep within the spare room”.’
He then claimed he awoke to seek out Adams sexually assaulting him.
‘I sleep bare and once I get up this man is below the cover attempting to offer me a blowjob.’
Carroll went on to ‘smack’ him as he ordered him out the home. ‘I smack him as arduous as I can and he hits the deck,’ he wrote.
Adams was subsequently discovered responsible of sexual offences and imprisoned.
He was additionally positioned on the Intercourse Offender Register and banned from coming into the village the place Carroll lived.
Adams had tried to argue in his defence that he had been assaulted by Carroll however the choose informed him: ‘You spun a actually unbelievable story wherein you painted your self because the sufferer. You’ve got really began to consider your individual lies.’
