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Shepard's mother has been married four times. Her first husband, after Shepard's dad, was an abuser.
"My first stepdad was physically abusive and beat her up in front of us. And it was gnarly," Shepard said on the
.
In 2016, when appearing on
The Jason Ellis Show, Shepard revealed that he was molested as a child by an 18-year-old neighbour. He was just seven at the time.
"It took me 12 years to tell anyone," he said. "And then all that time, I was like, a) 'It’s my fault,' as generic as that is, I’m like, 'It’s my fault, and I’m gay, I must have manifested this because I’m secretly gay.'