Rapper-turned-actress QUEEN LATIFAH has opened up for the first time about her harrowing childhood as a victim of sexual abuse in a candid new magazine interview. The Chicago star, real name Dana Owens, grew up in New Jersey with her mother Rita. Her dad, policeman Lancelot Owens, left the family home after her parents divorced when she was 10 years old. Latifah reveals she would often be placed under a babysitter's care, but her life was turned upside down when one teenage male sitter decided to take advantage of the youngster. She struggled to come to terms with the traumatic experience for years, and refuses to let pals and potential lovers get "too close" to her as a result. She tells Essence magazine, He violated me. I never told anybody. I just buried it as deeply as I could and kept people at an arm's length." Single Latifah, who has long been rumoured to be a lesbian, even admits the abuse has caused irreparable damage to her love life - suggesting she previously turned down a marriage proposal because of her childhood tragedy. The 39 year old adds, "I never really let a person get too close to me. I could have been married years ago, but I had a commitment issue."Jacked From Contact News
5 comments:
That is soo sad. I hope that comming out with this will ease her pain a bit. These sicko child molesters have no idea how they impact a childs life for a lifetime.
Hindsite, she should have told her policeman father so he could have plown the sick pervert's fuckin brains out. The sick fuck. I hope he burns in hell.
people always speculate as to why people asrent married with a boat load of children. sometimes it isnt because they are gay, its much deeper or the fact they like being single.
Zzzzz, how many times do we have to read this story before she comes out already?!?! Is this the set up? God?!
was the proposal from a Woman? cleary she dosen't date men.
By coming forward with this "crime" against her , she may help others who have faced similar situations. God bless her (regardless of her sexual orientation).
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