Ryan Hennessy shares terrifying story
Picture This front man Ryan Hennessy has opened up about the time he was almost kidnapped in fourth class.
He told the story during a conversation about trust on Bressie's Where Is My Mind podcast.
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Ryan said, "Something that I’ve never really talked about before or that nobody really knows about is that when I was in fourth class, my last day of school, I was walking home and I almost got kidnapped with my friend."
"We were walking back from school and this guy pulled up in a car and just asked us to come over."
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The Irish artist continued, "He let down the window and he was trying to show us that he had something and he was like, 'come in,' and asking us to look in the window."
"He quickly opened the door and tried to grab us. Myself and my friend sprinted."
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Abuse of trust
Ryan said, "That was my earliest memory of my trust being broken because I was trusting this person because I was just a kid and I had no reason not to trust anybody because I had nothing but that growing up."
In response, Bressie said, "Abuse of trust is probably the most powerful impact on our psychology."
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Ryan believes his issues with trust stem from, "a number of different moments," in his life.
He said, "That was my earliest memory of it, that time when I was almost kidnapped."
The artist spoke about a relationship he had when he was 16, and how his partner at the time had trust issues.
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"...I was untrusting and super insecure..."
He said, "I had a weird reaction to their lack of trust where I started to do it back subconsciously."
"It wasn’t a conscious thing of, 'I’m going to do it back because you’re doing it to me.'"
"But I only realised that in the next relationship that I had where I was untrusting and super insecure and always felt like they were going to hurt me."
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"I wish I realised that while I was in that relationship because I could have explained to the person, 'This is why I’m acting like this.'"
"I was living in a state of fear since I was a kid, up until last year."
"I've been living in auto pilot for many many years from things that have been conditioned onto me that I just allowed to happen... and subconsciously because you don't know it's happening."
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SPIN's Fully Charged with Graham and Nathan recently caught up with Ryan and his band Picture This for a chat.
Listen back to the interview here.
