'Reacher' star Alan Ritchson compares modeling industry to 'legalized sex trafficking': 'It left some scars'

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Actor Alan Ritchson opened up about his 'horrific' experience working in the modeling industry and how it impacted his mental health moving forward.

Well before he found success as an actor on various TV shows and films, Alan Ritchson got his start in modeling, something he said left him with 'scars' due to the 'horrific environments' he faced. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the 'Reacher' star opened up about his experience working in an industry in which, he claimed, 'sexual abuse was the goal,' and how it impacted his mental health moving forward.

After Ritchson was allegedly sexually assaulted by a 'very famous photographer,' he abruptly quit modeling and never returned. 'I was sent into a hotel room to do nudes with the promise that if I did the shoot, he would offer me a very lucrative campaign for a magazine and a clothing line. I was sexually assaulted by this guy,' he claimed. 'I left and drove straight to the agency that I was at in L.A. I stormed in and said, ‘F--- you for sending me there.

came out of that whole thing asking myself, ‘OK, if I am going to choose to be alive here - a decision we all make, some to a greater degree than others - what am I doing? Why am I here?’ What I kept falling back on was the meaning and purpose of life as someone who believes that there is a creator, and we are created beings, our purpose in life is, without qualification, to make the world a better place and serve others,' he said. 'That is what life is all about.

 

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