Bobby Brown was afraid to tell his mother a priest attempted to molest him as a child, because he was afraid of how she would react.
The former "New Edition" star was temporarily placed in child services after his mother was arrested. The social service agency was run by a Catholic charity and one of the priests tried to molest him while he was at the facility.
However, he punched the clergyman and ran off.
The 47-year-old doesn't reveal when he finally opened up to his mother about the incident, but he explains he told his brother first.
"It took a minute because I felt I was supposed to be at a place where they were supposed to take care of me and I was supposed to trust these people," he said during a US chat show "The View".
"I didn't know how to tell my mother that this happened and I didn't know how to tell anybody that it happened. I knew she would believe me. I knew my mother would be nuts, so I told my brother.
