Mena Suvari reveals she was sexually abused as a child

Mena Suvari considers herself happy to have survived her young years, marked by addiction and sexual abuse.

The star of

may have been one of the revelations of the cult film, released in 1999, she has always had to pretend to be well, when she was branded with a hot iron by these terrible experiences.

“I was living a double life.

Every time I went to a platter.

Whenever I was interviewed, I played all the time.

It was another role for me to play.

The one that was going well, ”she explained in an interview with

.

In her autobiography,

, the actress sheds light on these traumas.

“Between the ages of 12 and 20, I was the victim of repeated sexual abuse,” she wrote, adding that the acts were committed by a certain “KJ”, a friend of her brother's.

“He used me, had fun with me and got rid of me.

He called me a whore.

I was never able to have a healthy expression of sex, ”added the star.

Go back up the slope

In the book, Mena Suvari reveals that she had long thought that she had "allowed" him to do this, causing a feeling of deep shame in her, which she never really got rid of.

By leaving her family to try her luck in Hollywood, the young woman she was at the time plunges into the "rave" scene of Los Angeles.

And the drug culture that reigns there.

“I turned to whatever form of self-medication I could find, just to get out of it.

I was just trying to survive, ”she explains in the book, adding that at the same time, she was engaging in self-destructive love affairs.

The carton of

, while it is 20, allowing it to start to get out of this spiral, through therapy and friends.

In 2016, she met Mike Hope, on the set of a movie.

Two years later, the couple got married.

They welcomed their first child last April.

“It was the first time that I felt I wanted to start a family with someone.

I found out I was pregnant when I finished writing my autobiography, ”she revealed.

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