Vanessa
Williams opened up on Oprah Winfrey's Master Class and spoke about a traumatic
summer when a much older 'cool girl' performed oral sex on her when she was
staying with her friend's family's friends in California:
'She was one
of the cool girls. She made you want to feel like you were a grown-up.'
Then, one
night when Williams and her friend were sleeping, the older girl sneaked into
their room and woke Williams with a strange request.
She told me
to lie down on the floor. She took my bottoms off and she said, 'Be quiet,'
Williams says. 'She went down on me.
'I had no
idea what it was, but I knew it felt good. I knew it felt good, but was also
something that was not supposed to be happening.'
Williams
never told her parents about what happened but says that the incident
sexualized her at an inappropriately early age and that in a way it took away
some of her innocence.
She
continued:
'It awakens
your sexuality at an age where it shouldn't be awakened. Had that not happened
in my life and had I had an opportunity to have a normal courtship with a
boyfriend at 16 or whatever... there wouldn't have been that shame that was
always haunting me.
It made me more sexually promiscuous and more sexually curious
at a younger age than I should have been.'
Hmmm..
message to all mothers
.
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