Desperate Housewives star Vanessa Williams is bravely and surprisingly opening up about sexual abuse she endured as a 10-year-old at the hands of a teenage girl. In a revealing interview in the new issue of People , Williams says the incident occurred when she was staying with family friends and their 18-year-old daughter. The 18-year-old entered her room and “pulled down the bloomers of my cotton baby doll pajamas,” said Vanessa. “I lay there paralyzed. What was I going to do?” Williams remained close-lipped about the sexual abuse for many years, but is now sharing her secret in her upcoming memoir, fittingly titled You Have No Idea . Despite the childhood trauma, the former Miss America said it didn’t emotionally scar her for life – however, there were long-lasting, indirect consequences. “It didn’t paralyze me, and I don’t dwell,” she explained, although it did cause her to act more rebellious and “pull away” from her parents as a youngster. [Photo: WENN.com]
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Vanessa Williams Admits Suffering Sexual Abuse as a Child
