Oprah Winfrey Re-visited A Past Of Rape, Horror n Pain

The queen of talk show Oprah Winfrey spoke about her rape ordeal in public again.

The woman who was once named the richest woman in the world molested and raped as a young girl by several of her relatives, including a cousin at age nine.

Although she has risen above all that horror now, the 61-year old re-visited her past while talking of all the anguish she faced as a child, and the horror and pain of both having and losing a child at 14.

The former talk show host revealed this to a crowd of 15,000 people during her recent speech at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne.

“I did an interview with a reporter before I came to Australia and she said I should name the baby son who died,” she said.

“So I have named him, I had a little boy named Canaan,” 61-year-old Winfrey said. “I did have a son. And I named him Canaan because Canaan means new land, new life.”

Then she narrated her story of how she was raped at a very tender age by her family members. “I was raped at 9 years old by a cousin, then again by another family member, and another family member,” she continued. The abuses resulted in her getting pregnant at the age of 14 and she tried to hide it because she felt so much “pain and shame.”

“I took to my bed and cried for three days. I felt devastated. Wounded. Betrayed. How could this person do this to me.I imagined that every person on the street was going to point their finger at me and scream, ‘Pregnant at 14, you wicked girl … expelled!'” She revealed.

Few weeks after the child was born, he died in the hospital. She never spoke publicly about him until a relative broke the story years in 1990.