Oprah Winfrey faces the toughest face of life since the tender age of nine
With tears in her eyes, Oprah Winfrey spoke of the shocking experience of being repeatedly raped by a close relative at the tender age of nine!
Speaking in front of the camera of the documentary she co-created with Prince Harry, “The Me You Can’t See”, it was her turn to make a shocking confession about her nightmarish experiences from the age of 9 to 12.
The famous presenter did not hesitate to reveal that her then 19-year-old cousin sexually abused her for three years. She even confessed that at that time not only did she not know what rape was, but not even sex and how children are made, thus keeping it inside her.
” At 19, 10, 11 and 12, my 19-year-old cousin raped me. “I did not know what rape was and I certainly did not know the word, what sex was, how children are made, I did not even know what was happening to me, so I kept it a secret from everyone, ” revealed Oprah Winfrey.
Unable to hide her emotion, she claimed that all she could do was accept what had happened to her and try to bury it inside her, with the least psychological consequences for her. According to her, those were the very moments when she realized that ” a girl can not be safe in a world full of men “.
Oprah also claimed that she would have dealt with her injuries if she could then talk to someone and confess what she had experienced, emphasizing the “vital” importance of “sharing what you feel, what is happening to you” with someone.
In her confession, Oprah Winfrey revealed that these were not the only bad experiences she had as a child, when she moved out of the home of her grandparents, who were abusive to them, and went to stay with her mother. and her whiter partner, he did not even let her in the first night, claiming that it was because of her color.
” There was a small terrace overlooking the street and I had to sleep on a couch out there. “My mother did not even react. Then I realized that I was alone, ” described the 67-year-old Oprah, who is by far the most influential in the world, revealing that her mother’s partner then systematically abused her.
Her nightmare stopped when she opened the African girls’ school, where she enrolled immediately, finding the love she so desperately needed from the teachers, who were the only ones who really cared about her and saved her.
“For years in my life this was the only place I really felt loved. And that was the reason I wanted to become a teacher, to give the children what my teachers had given me “she concludes.
However, she was not the only one who had such a difficult childhood, and a 12-year-old friend she met at school had been raped by her perverted uncle. In fact, when she told her grandmother, asking for help, she chose to believe her son…
