![]() ![]() Santana's new reflections come days before a new documentary chronicling the guitarist, " Carlos," is set to premiere this weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival. But if you open your hands, and you let it go, then you don't feel that anymore." “There's this saying, 'Hurt people hurt people.' It's my pain," he said. He turned to an age-old adage to help him let go of his internal guilt and suffering. But if I send him to the light, then I'm going to go with him also." "So I can send him to the light or send him to hell knowing that if I send him to hell, I'm going to go with him. "For example, this person who abused me sexually, instead of sending him to hell forever, I visualized him like a child, and behind him there was a lot of light," he said in his People interview. ![]() Santana has since reevaluated how he views his abuser. The mind has a very insidious way of making you feel guilty: You’re the guilty party, shame on you, you’re the one who brought this on yourself.” "You want to get angry with yourself for not knowing better. "I was seduced by toys, and I was seduced by being brought to America with all kinds of gifts and stuff," the "Oye Como Va" musician said 23 years ago. He noted his abuser was an American man who would help him cross the border from Tijuana "almost every other day." Santana first revealed he was molested from age 10 to 12 while speaking with Rolling Stone in 2000. "I learned to look at everyone who ever went out of their way to hurt me, demean me or make me feel like less, like they're 5 or 6 years old, and I'm able to look at them with understanding and compassion," he said. In an interview with People magazine, the 75-year-old guitarist reflected on how he has processed the "hurt" of his past. (Amy Harris / Invision / AP)Ĭarlos Santana is speaking out about the person he says sexually abused him in his youth. Carlos Santana recently opened about forgiving the person who he says sexually abused him as a child. ![]()
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