confession

thumb|Confession of Love by Jean-Honoré Fragonard depicts a subject confessing feelings that had been concealed up to that point.

A confession is a statement – made by a person or by a group of people – acknowledging some personal fact that the person (or the group) would ostensibly prefer to keep hidden. The term presumes that the speaker is providing information that they believe the other party is not already aware of, and is frequently associated with an admission of a moral or legal wrong: