Vanessa Williams Was Sexually Molested As A Child

The actress and former Miss America reveals on Oprah's Winfreys's TV network, she talked about the vacation with a friend's family that she says introduced her to sexual curiosity and promiscuity at a very early age. She previously recounted the ordeal in her 2012 memoir "You Have No Idea."
"We ended up staying with a family friend of theirs. They had an older daughter," she said, in an interview with "Oprah's Master Class" that aired Tuesday.

"(She) was one of the cool girls. ... She made you want to feel like you were a grown-up."

 The actress admits she never had a chance to tell her parents about the ordeal.

The actress, 51, said that her admiration for the 18-year-old woman changed after the night when she came into her room when others were asleep.

"She told me to lie down on the floor," Williams said. "She took my bottoms off and she said, 'Be quiet.' … She went down on me."

 

The "Ugly Betty" actress said at just 10 years old she didn't understand what was happening.

 

"I had no idea what it was, but I knew it felt good," Williams said. "I knew it felt good, but (was) also something that was not supposed to be happening."

The former Miss America said she wanted to tell her parents about it but never got the chance. She came home from the vacation only to learn that there had been a death in the family.

"I saw my dad's face and his face was gray. And I just found out that his brother had died," she said.

 The former Miss America says her sexuality was ‘awakened’ at an age it shouldn’t have been.

"That was a family drama. I never really talked to my dad about it. I kind of suppressed it."

Speaking of the lasting effect the encounter with the woman had on her life and relationships, Williams said she carried shame growing up.

"It awakens your sexuality at an age where it shouldn't be awakened," she said.

"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."

 

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