Liam Neeson revealed he stopped going to confession at age 15 after a priest shamed him for talking about masturbation
Liam Neeson made a NSFW confession at church as a teenager — and a priest made sure it was his last.
“So we start, and I had learned how to pleasure myself at home, onto the sheets, right? I had looked up the appropriate word. I remember that. ‘Masturbate?’ ‘Masturbation?’ OK. That seems harmless enough I’ll say that,” Neeson, 71, recalled telling the missionary on the latest episode of the “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast. “[So I told him], ‘I got in an argument with my mom, my sister and I got in a fight and I masturbated.’”
Neeson, who was 15 at the time, detailed how the priest — who had a “booming” voice — began yelling at him in the confessional stall. “‘You what?!’ This guy, literally, I mean, he almost said things like, ‘The grass will grow over the palm of your hand before you’re 21! Stop that evil practice! He’s shouting this!” Neeson said.
