Selma Blair discusses being raped multiple times in new memoir
nme.comMean Baby, and in it she talks about some traumatic moments from her past including multiple times she was raped.In excerpts from the book which were published in People magazine on Wednesday (May 11), the Cruel Intentions actor has opened up about her problems with alcoholism – which started at the age of seven – and how after a day of binge-drinking, she was raped by at least one if not two people.“I don’t know if both of them raped me.
One of them definitely did,” Blair writes in the book, according to People. “I wish I could say what happened to me that night was an anomaly, but it wasn’t.
I have been raped, multiple times, because I was too drunk to say the words ‘Please. Stop.’ Only that one time was violent. I came out of each event quiet and ashamed.”Blair told People that until now she had only shared these experiences with her therapist, but she thinks writing about it will help her heal from that trauma.“I had so much shame and blame,” she told the publication. “I’m grateful I felt safe enough to put it on the page.
And then can work on it with a therapist and with other writing, and really relieve that burden of shame on myself.”Blair also writes in Mean Baby about how she was sexually assaulted by a teacher at a school she attended when she was in her teens.Viewing him as a friend and someone she could trust, Blair thought he was “the greatest man” she had ever met.
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