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  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Bella Thorne feels “mad” at herself for not doing anything to stop her alleged abuser

    The 21-year-old actress claimed last year that she had been sexually abused by an older man in her home for several years, and has now said she still feels guilty that she never reported the alleged actions, and instead just “laid there, comatose” whilst the abuse took place


    She said: “I always think, ‘Maybe you could have done something.’ It kind of makes me mad, because I read these stories that are really awful - I mean, really awful … it’s really something getting ripped and taken from you. At least those girls tried. I just laid there, comatose.”

    In December last year, the former Disney star replied to a fan on Twitter who jokingly said: “What did Disney do this girl?! I think she was molested,” by telling them that she had in fact been abused in her childhood, and said she thinks her childhood trauma explains why she’s “dying on the inside”.

    She added: “I used to think of myself like Marilyn Monroe a little bit. Everyone thought Marilyn Monroe was this sex symbol and she was always perfect and beautiful, but she was dying on the inside. I go back to that tweet, and maybe, in some [messed] up way, it’s right.

    Maybe I am this way because I was molested and raped when I was younger.”

    Despite her alleged abuse, the ‘Famous in Love’ actress - whose father passed away when she was just nine years old - says she’s now happy with her life.

    Speaking to the LA Times, she said: “I like my life. All of the things that are awful - especially all of the things that happened growing up

    - I’ve always looked at it as: ‘Why me?’ Because I am strong enough.

    Because it has gotten me here. I don’t even know what Bella Thorne would look like if she hadn’t been molested growing up, or her father hadn’t died. I don’t know that I like that girl.”

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