Stars Who Survived Abuse

I grew up going to a Catholic school and I was the victim of a predator

Over the years, many Hollywood stars have bravely come forward with their experiences of abuse — whether they be survivors of domestic abuse, sexual abuse, child abuse or another form of torment, Qazet.az reports.

“It would start with tickling my back and then go into things that were extremely uncomfortable,” Jessica Simpson detailed being sexually abused as a child in her 2020 memoir, Open Book. “I wanted to tell my parents. I was the victim but somehow I felt in the wrong.”

She added: “We never stayed at my parents’ friends’ house again but we also didn’t talk about what I had said.”
Simpson later confronted her alleged attacker, revealing that she eventually forgave them.

“I would say about eight years ago I confronted her,” the Newlyweds alum said during a July 2020 appearance on the “Gift of Forgiveness” podcast. “I went to her and I just said, ‘I know you know what was going on and I know that you were being abused,’ ‘cause she was being abused by an older guy. And basically, and he was always there at the house as well — he never touched me, but he would abuse her and then she would come to me and do the stuff to me — and so in so many ways I felt bad for her and I was allowing the abuse to happen.”
Former Bachelorette Clare Crawley has also been candid about surviving abuse.

“I grew up going to a Catholic school and I was the victim of a predator,” the California-based hairstylist revealed during a September 2021 appearance on Red Table Talk: The Estefans. “My parents looked at Catholic priests as — they held them on a pedestal.”