Terry Crews, a former NFL player who now stars as Terence "Terry" Jeffords on the Fox sitcom “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” is publicizing his battle against pornography.

In a Facebook video posted Feb. 11, Crews discussed his past pornography addiction.

“Pornography — it really, really messed up my life in a lot of ways,” Crews said in the video. “It became a thing where I didn’t tell anybody. I didn't tell anybody. It was my secret. Nobody knew, and that allowed it to grow, and it got bad.”

In an interview with talk show host Wendy Williams in 2014, Crews said his pornography addiction began at age 12. Part of his book, “Manhood: How to Be a Better Man — or Just Live with One,” which was released in 2014, discussed sex addiction.

“My issue was and is with pornography is that it changes the way you think about people,” Crews said in the Facebook video. “People become objects. People become body parts. They become things to be used rather than people to be loved.”

When Crews realized how serious his addiction was and saw how it was affecting his marriage, he sought help and went to rehab.

Crews has spoken out against pornography before. Last year, he shared a photo on his Instagram account of himself wearing a “Porn Kills Love” T-shirt. The "Porn Kills Love" slogan is associated with the Fight the New Drug campaign.

Crews is also known for hosting “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” and appearing in Old Spice commercials.

Watch the video on Facebook.

Lindsey Williams writes for the the Faith and Family sections of DeseretNews.com