Billy Currington’s Childhood Demons

In an interview with People magazine, country superstar Billy Currington said that he’s taking the rest of the year off to continue treatment for issues stemming from nearly a dozen years of physical abuse as a child.

Billy says he returned to Nashville (on July 26) after a 30-day stay at a trauma recovery program in Arizona. He has canceled 83 shows and will leave for Hawaii on August 26 to work with two therapists specializing in childhood trauma.

Apparently his first stepfather, the one Billy wrote about in “Walk a Little Straighter,” physically abused him for years, including knocking him unconscious when he was 10! I won’t even say what I’d like to have seen happen to that idiot. But it rhymes with having the skit beaten out of him.

Billy’s trauma began showing itself when he got into fights in grade school. “When you are taught to hate, you carry that with you,” he says. “Even today, I call myself 98 percent laid-back, but 2 percent is Little Billy, my inner child that’s hurt, sad and furious because he was never taken care of.

“My childhood did not turn me into an alcoholic or a drug addict; my challenge in life is my anger,” Billy says. “I’d be Little Billy for two seconds, yelling and blowing up. And in those instances, that rage can destroy relationships, whether it’s with a girlfriend or a business partner or a fan.”

Very, very best of wishes for Billy and his recovery - he’s seeking out help, so our money’s on him beating the demons and sending them back to hell where they belong.

For more Billy Currington pictures, click HERE. We’re pulling for you, man!

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