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10 Celebrities Who Survived Rape by notjustafricas: 1:20am On Jan 10, 2015
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Oprah Winfrey On the David Letterman show, Winfrey opened up about having been raped when she was 9, and having suffered several incidents of sexual attack until age 14. According to DailyMail.co.uk, it was this incident that instilled in Winfrey the immense empathy that allows her to get some of the biggest stars to open up to her about their deepest emotions.

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Gabrielle Union In an interview on Oprah.com, the actress opened up about the fact that when she was 19 and working in a shoe store, a robber came into the store and raped her at gunpoint. Union says keeping the right people around her encouraged her to live “survivorhood, not victimhood.”

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Tyler Perry The prolific screenwriter, actor and producer was the victim of several sexual assaults as a child. According to Oprah.com, Perry was molested by four different adults including a male neighbor, a man from his church and the mother of one of his friends. Perry says that as a result of the trauma, it wasn’t until his 20s that he began to understand his own sexuality.

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Fantasia

In her memoir, the American Idol alum reveals that she was raped in the ninth grade in the school auditorium by a boy she had a crush on. According to ABCnews.go.com, Fantasia reported the boy, but for a while blamed herself for the incident.

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Fiona Apple The singer-songwriter was raped by an intruder in her New York City apartment hallway when she was 12. According to NotableBiographies.com, this incident pushed Apple to write music because she had a desire to express her emotions about the event to the world.

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Scott Weiland The front man for the grunge group Stone Temple Pilots revealed in his memoir that when he was 12 years old, he was raped by a senior at his high school. According to an interview on Huffingtonpost.com, the musician suppressed this memory but it came back to him in rehab.
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Re: 10 Celebrities Who Survived Rape by Scarpon(m): 2:25am On Jan 10, 2015
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