Actress Angela Bassett who was one of the characters in the American Horror Story has opened about her sexual abuse experience and it happened when she was “12 or 13.”
Angela held the annual Rape Foundation brunch in Santa Monica last weekend and got very candid with the attendees when she shared a story of when she was sexually assaulted when she was a young girl. The “devastating” incident happened when she was a teenager. A man who was dating her mum sexually molested her.
“Fortunately, it wasn’t a complete assault, it was fondling, but it was devastating enough for a child who’s 12 or 13,” she said, according to Variety. Angela was grateful that her mother believed her. “Thankfully, to have a mother who could tell as soon as light broke that this happened and for her to expel him. That she heard me, believed me, and did something about it, I think was so empowering for me as a young teen, as a young woman.”
Angela’s early experience made her teach her children about the importance of boundaries. “I started that early because of experiences with friends and I know that they will be in situations one day,” she explained. “When a girl says no, both to him and to her, she means no. Back up. She has to say come here, kiss me.”