Monday, June 15, 2009

Her Essence Cover Latifah on Abuse and Could Have Married



Queen Latifah is looking summery and pretty fab on the July cover of Essence mag. In the issue, she reveals her story of her own abuse as a child that she’s never opened up about before:

Of the traumatic experience, Latifah tells that she was violated by a teenage babysitter, saying, “He violated me. I never told anybody. I just buried it as deeply as I could and kept people at an arms length. I never really let a person get too close to me.”

She also admits that, because of the abuse, she’s since struggled with commitment. “I could have been married years ago, but I had a commitment issue.”

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