Over the years, many Hollywood stars have bravely come forward with their experiences of abuse \u2014 whether they be survivors of domestic abuse, sexual abuse, child abuse or another form of torment.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would start with tickling my back and then go into things that were extremely uncomfortable,\u201d Jessica Simpson<\/strong><\/a> detailed being sexually abused as a child in her 2020 memoir,\u00a0<\/a>Open Book<\/a>.\u00a0<\/i>\u201cI wanted to tell my parents. I was the victim but somehow I felt in the wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n She added: \u201cWe never stayed at my parents\u2019 friends\u2019 house again but we also didn\u2019t talk about what I had said.\u201d<\/p>\n Simpson later confronted her alleged attacker, revealing that she eventually forgave them.<\/p>\n \u201cI would say about eight years ago I confronted her,\u201d the\u00a0Newlyweds\u00a0<\/i>alum said during a July 2020 appearance on the \u201cGift of Forgiveness\u201d podcast<\/a>. \u201cI went to her and I just said, \u2018I know you know what was going on and I know that you were being abused,\u2019 \u2018cause she was being abused by an older guy. And basically, and he was always there at the house as well \u2014 he never touched me, but he would abuse her and then she would come to me and do the stuff to me \u2014 and so in so many ways I felt bad for her and I was allowing the abuse to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n Former Bachelorette Clare Crawley<\/strong><\/a> has also been candid about surviving abuse<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI grew up going to a Catholic school and I was the victim of a predator,\u201d the California-based hairstylist revealed during a September 2021 appearance on\u00a0Red Table Talk: The Estefans<\/i><\/a>. \u201cMy parents looked at Catholic priests as \u2014 they held them on a pedestal.\u201d<\/p>\n Crawley, who briefly served as the season 16 lead of\u00a0The Bachelorette<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0added: \u201cMy parents did the best they could and reached out for the resources they could at the time and sent me to this priest. I don\u2019t think there was any counseling that was done. It was a one-on-one time to be a predator.\u201d<\/p>\n Scroll down to read the accounts of famous survivors such as Tyra Banks<\/a><\/strong>, Jessica Simpson<\/a><\/strong> and Mary J. Blige<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n If you or someone you know are experiencing domestic violence, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline<\/a> at 1-800-799-7233 for confidential support. If you have experienced sexual assault, call the National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline<\/a> at 1-800-656-4673 for confidential support. To report child abuse, consult the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 Child Welfare Information Gateway<\/a> for state-specific reporting phone numbers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit:<\/em> Axelle\/Bauer-Griffin\/FilmMagic\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Over the years, many Hollywood stars have bravely come forward with their experiences of abuse \u2014 whether they be survivors of domestic abuse, sexual abuse, child abuse or another form of torment.
\n<\/p>\n \u201cIt would start with tickling my back and then go into things that were extremely uncomfortable,\u201d Jessica Simpson<\/strong><\/a> detailed being sexually abused as a child in her 2020 memoir,\u00a0<\/a>Open Book<\/a>.\u00a0<\/i>\u201cI wanted to tell my parents. I was the victim but somehow I felt in the wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n She added: \u201cWe never stayed at my parents\u2019 friends’ house again but we also didn\u2019t talk about what I had said.\u201d<\/p>\n Simpson later confronted her alleged attacker, revealing that she eventually forgave them.<\/p>\n \u201cI would say about eight years ago I confronted her,\u201d the\u00a0Newlyweds\u00a0<\/i>alum said during a July 2020 appearance on the \u201cGift of Forgiveness\u201d podcast<\/a>. \u201cI went to her and I just said, \u2018I know you know what was going on and I know that you were being abused,\u2019 \u2018cause she was being abused by an older guy. And basically, and he was always there at the house as well \u2014 he never touched me, but he would abuse her and then she would come to me and do the stuff to me \u2014 and so in so many ways I felt bad for her and I was allowing the abuse to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n [jwplayer 2FTwfoXj-zhNYySv2]<\/p>\n Former Bachelorette Clare Crawley<\/strong><\/a> has also been candid about surviving abuse<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI grew up going to a Catholic school and I was the victim of a predator,\u201d the California-based hairstylist revealed during a September 2021 appearance on\u00a0Red Table Talk: The Estefans<\/i><\/a>. \u201cMy parents looked at Catholic priests as \u2014 they held them on a pedestal.\u201d<\/p>\n Crawley, who briefly served as the season 16 lead of\u00a0The Bachelorette<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0added: \u201cMy parents did the best they could and reached out for the resources they could at the time and sent me to this priest. I don\u2019t think there was any counseling that was done. It was a one-on-one time to be a predator.\u201d<\/p>\n Scroll down to read the accounts of famous survivors such as Tyra Banks<\/a><\/strong>, Jessica Simpson<\/a><\/strong> and Mary J. Blige<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n If you or someone you know are experiencing domestic violence, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline<\/a> at 1-800-799-7233 for confidential support. If you have experienced sexual assault, call the National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline<\/a> at 1-800-656-4673 for confidential support. To report child abuse, consult the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 Child Welfare Information Gateway<\/a> for state-specific reporting phone numbers.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit:<\/em> Todd Williamson\/E! Entertainment\/NBC\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n In December 2022, the Selling Sunset<\/em> star claimed that she was sexually abused by two members of her family when she was between the ages of 3 and 11. “I put on a very strong face, which comes from the fact that from the time I was three years old, I was sexually abused by somebody very close to me, and you have to pretend like that’s not happening,” she told Mr. Warburton<\/em> magazine, adding that she didn’t fully understand what happened to her until she had children. \u201cUntil God gave me a baby girl, it did not click. It hit me one day when my daughter was almost 2, and I was pregnant with my son. I imagined everything that happened to me happening to her. And it changed everything. Suddenly everything made sense. All of the things I had struggled with in my teens, addiction in my 20s, ways I felt I failed, was not motivated, and felt in some way different from my friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit:<\/em> Matt Baron\/Shutterstock\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \u201cLike lots of people \u2026 I was sexually abused as a child,\u201d the Mumford & Sons musician told GQ<\/em> in an August 2022 cover story after sharing the song \u201cCannibal,” which includes pointed lyrics about the traumatic experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201c[The abuse was not] by family and not in the church, which might be some people\u2019s assumption,\u201d he shared with the outlet. \u201cBut I hadn\u2019t told anyone about it for 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit:<\/em> MediaPunch\/Shutterstock\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n The American Beauty star revealed in her 2021 memoir, The Great Peace, that she was raped by a friend of her older brother when she was 12. “I never was all right again,” Suvari wrote, later revealing that she began dating a 26-year-old when she was just 17 and claiming the relationship was sexually and emotionally abusive. “The whole time I worked on American Beauty, I was grinding on empty: working to perfect my part, submitting to [his] demands for kinky threesomes at least three or four times a week, and pretending in both cases that everything was OK. Except it wasn\u2019t. \u2026 Little by little he whittled away the thin layer of self-worth I had left.”<\/p>\n In July 2022, the Six Feet Under alum confessed to The Guardian that her experiences with sexual abuse warped the way she views sex and relationships. “I\u2019ve never wanted to speak negatively about things that can be very healthy for other people. I was not given the choice or the permission to do it, and that\u2019s what was so destructive for me,” Suvari said at the time. “All of that still weighs on me because I never got the opportunity to discover myself in that way.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit:<\/em> ABC\/Craig Sjodin\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \u201cSelf love is the act of giving a voice to your truth. \u2026 As a child of sexual abuse, my young adult years were spent in unhealthy relationships feeling unworthy of the good ones,\u201d the Bachelor Winter Games<\/em> alum wrote via Instagram in July 2021<\/a>. \u201cIt was a vicious cycle, because the more I chose the wrong men who treated me poorly, the more I believed I wasn\u2019t good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit:<\/em> Matt Baron\/Shutterstock\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n The singer revealed in her 2020 memoir, Open Book<\/em>, that she was sexually abused at the age of 6 at a family friend\u2019s house. \u201cI wanted to tell my parents. I was the victim but somehow I felt in the wrong,\u201d she wrote. Years later, Simpson turned to alcohol and pills to cope before becoming sober in November 2017.<\/p>\n Simpson previously told Elle<\/em> in 2008 that she had \u201cdefinitely experienced abuse in a way that I would tell people to take their heart and run.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit:<\/em> Bruce Glikas\/Bruce Glikas\/FilmMagic\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n The former View <\/em>host claimed in the book Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of The View<\/em> that her father, Edward O\u2019Donnell, sexually abused her when she was a child. \u201cIt started very young,\u201d the SMILF<\/em> actress told author Ramin Setoodeh. \u201cAnd then when my mother died, it sort of ended in a weird way, because then he was with these five children to take care of. On the whole, it\u2019s not something I like to talk about. Of course, it changes everyone. Any child who is put in that position, especially by someone in the family, you feel completely powerless and stuck, because the person you would tell is the person doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit:<\/em> Slaven Vlasic\/Getty Images\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n The iZombie<\/em> actor shared his story on Twitter in March 2019, writing, \u201cThe longer I keep my secret, the longer I feel like I\u2019m protecting someone who doesn\u2019t deserve it and letting down others who are too afraid to step forward and confront their own past. I was a victim of sexual abuse as a child. We are not alone and we are not to blame.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit:<\/em> Matt Winkelmeyer\/Getty Images\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n The Westworld<\/em> actress detailed a past abusive relationship in March 2019 as she shared portraits from a photo shoot. \u201cThe day of this photoshoot, I was so weakened by an abusive relationship,\u201d she wrote in the caption of the Instagram post. \u201cI was emaciated, severely depressed, and could barely stand. I fell into a pool of tears and was sent home for the day.\u201d<\/p>\n In a follow-up post, she shared a pic of scratch marks on her forearm. \u201c2 years into my abusive relationship I resorted to self harm,\u201d she wrote in that caption, not naming her abuser. \u201cWhen my abuser would threaten or attack me, I cut my wrist as a way to disarm him. It only made the abuse stop temporarily. At that point I was desperate to stop the relentless abuse and I was too terrified to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit:<\/em> Bruce Glikas\/FilmMagic\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n During their one-year marriage in 1988, the former sitcom star alleged she was physically attacked \u2014 and even raped \u2014 by her then-husband, boxing champion Mike Tyson<\/strong>. “He shakes, he pushes, he swings,\u201d she told Barbara Walters<\/strong> in an interview while they were still married. (Tyson later admitted to hitting Givens during a 2009 talk show appearance.)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit:<\/em> Jerritt Clark\/FilmMagic\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n The America’s Next Top Model<\/em> winner claimed she was physically and mentally abused by her ex-boyfriend. “It was such a dark moment in my life,” she said. Their relationship ended before she began filming the CW show.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit:<\/em> Pascal Le Segretain\/Getty Images\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n The singer was isolated and physically abused by Ike Turner on a regular basis for most of their 16-year marriage. “I have had, basically, my face bashed in, and I never did anything about it,” she said after their 1978 divorce.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit:<\/em> Mireya Acierto\/WireImage\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n The supermodel allegedly dated a man who emotionally abused her and tried to break her down so he could be in control. She said that one day, she woke up and decided to end the relationship because “when you’re done, you know you’re done,” as she revealed on her talk show in 2009.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit:<\/em> Cindy Ord\/Getty Images for Casa Reale\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n The hip-hop singer’s childhood involved sexual abuse at the hands of a family friend, and she was a witness to domestic abuse. “I still can’t give all of me,” she said of her then-husband, Kendu Isaacs, in a 2008 interview with The Guardian<\/em>. “I need something to walk away with, just in case he decides to walk out the door.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit:<\/em> Jeffrey Mayer\/WireImage\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n The singer received such intense professional pressure and managerial demands to control her weight while recording her first album that she became anorexic and suffered from bulimia. “I’ve had so many [rock bottom] moments in my life,” she told Elle Canada<\/em> in 2009.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit:<\/em> Stefanie Keenan\/Getty Images for Lorraine Schwartz\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n The reality star claimed she suffered abuse at the hands of her now-estranged music mogul father. “He would whack me and he used to yank my hair,” she said on a U.K. talk show in 2007. “As punishment, my dad used to lock me in the unlit coal cupboard in the basement. I still panic in confined spaces to this day.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nStars Who Survived Abuse<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nAmanza Smith<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nMarcus Mumford<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"Mena](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Mena-Suvari-Says-Abusive-Ex-\u2018Manipulated-Her-Into-Threesomes-She-\u2018Never-Wanted.jpg?w=800&quality=40&strip=all\" "\\"Mena")
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nMena Suvari<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"Sharing](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Sharing-Their-Stories-Stars-Who-Survived-Abuse-clare.jpg?w=800&quality=40&strip=all\" "\\"Clare")
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nClare Crawley<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"Jessica-Simpson-Open-Book-memoir-abuse-sobriety-reveal\"](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Jessica-Simpson-Open-Book-memoir-abuse-sobriety-reveal.jpg?w=800&quality=40&strip=all\" "\\"Jessica")
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nJessica Simpson<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nRosie O\u2019Donnell<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"Rahul-Kohli-abuse\"](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rahul-Kohli-abuse.jpg?w=800&quality=40&strip=all\" "\\"Rahul")
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nRahul Kohli<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"evan-rachel-wood\"](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/evan-rachel-wood.jpg?w=800&quality=76&strip=all\" "\\"Evan")
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nEvan Rachel Wood<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nRobin Givens<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"Jaslene-Gonzalez\"](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Jaslene-Gonzalez.jpg?w=800&quality=40&strip=all\" "\\"Jaslene")
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nJaslene Gonzalez<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"Tina-Turner\"](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Tina-Turner.jpg?w=800&quality=40&strip=all\" "\\"Tina")
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nTina Turner<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nTyra Banks<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"Mary-J.-Blige\"](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Mary-J.-Blige.jpg?w=800&quality=40&strip=all\" "\\"Mary")
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nMary J. Blige<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"Alanis-Morissette\"](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Alanis-Morissette.jpg?w=800&quality=40&strip=all\" "\\"Alanis")
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nAlanis Morissette<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"sharon-osbourne\"](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sharon-osbourne.jpg?w=800&quality=55&strip=all\" "\\"Sharon")
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nSharon Osbourne<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"Whitney-Houston\"](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Whitney-Houston.jpg?w=800&quality=55&strip=all\" "\\"Whitney")
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n![\"Ana-Ortiz\"](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Ana-Ortiz.jpg?w=800&quality=40&strip=all\" "\\"Ana")
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