I’m A Survivor: 15 Celebrities Who Survived Child Abuse

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Queen Latifah

Queen Latifah opened up to Essence magazine about her experience with sexual abuse at the hands of a teenage babysitter:

“He violated me. I never told anybody; I just buried it as deeply as I could and kept people at an arm’s distance.

I never really let a person get too close to me. I could have been married years ago, but I had a commitment issue.”

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