Penn Badgley: When I said "I’ve literally been molested," I didn't mean I was actually molested

People

The Lifetime You star clarified his comments to The Daily Beast over the weekend, in which he said: "I’ve definitely been, I mean I don’t want to sound sensationalist, but I’ve literally been molested—just in the literal sense of the word—by many people in the moment." Badgley explained in a statement released to People magazine: "The point of my comment was not to confess a personal trauma. I was speaking about the way emotional and physical boundaries are violated for someone in the public eye, who is seen as an object of desire."