Vanessa Williams has revealed shocking details of the molestation she experienced as a child by a female family friend.
The Desperate Housewives actress has kept the disturbing secret to herself for years, but has finally detailed her experience in her new memoir, You Have No Idea.
"Family friends who had a daughter invited me to visit their friends in California with them. The family we stayed with had two kids," Vanessa writes in the book she co-wrote with her mother.
"Susan, who was 18, smoked, drove a car, and was the epitome of cool. (My friend) Nancy and I slept in the den. One night Susan crept in. She told me to lie down on the rug. I was confused. Are we going to play a game? As I tried to make sense of it, Susan pulled down the bloomers of my cotton baby-doll pajamas."
"'What are you doing?’ I asked. ‘Don’t worry – it’ll feel good.’ I lay there paralyzed. What was going on? I didn’t speak. She kept at (the molestation) for I don’t know how long. She slid my bloomers back up and whispered: ‘Don’t tell anyone.’ I climbed into my bed, trying to figure out what had just happened."
It wasn't until Vanessa was in college and she suddenly revealed her secret to her then-boyfriend. "For years I kept Susan’s visit to myself. I didn’t really understand until college. I was with with my boyfriend and it hit me and I blurted it out: ‘Oh my god – I was molested!’ After that trip I felt something change in me."
The 49-year-old has now put the events behind her and is now focusing on the future. "I don’t dwell (on the past)," she told People magazine.
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