In October last year, the actor could Mena Suvari (42), known from movies like “American Beauty” and “American Pie” reveal that she and her husband Michael Hope were expecting their first child together.
In April, the wait for the couple was finally over. It confirmed a spokesman for the actor, who told People that both mother and child were well.
Suvari has been a renowned actress since the start of her career in 1999. She has thus experienced a lot over the years as an actress.
Now, in connection with her release of a new autobiography, it emerges, however, that she has experienced a lot of pain in the time before her acting career gained momentum.
Among other things, she talks about repeated abuses.
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– Victim of sexual assault
In the autobiography, which is reproduced by People, the 42-year-old writes that she was already raped as a 12-year-old. Thereafter, she is said to have been a victim of abuse until she turned 20 years old.
“Between the ages of twelve and 20, I was the victim of repeated sexual abuse,” she writes in the book, according to People.
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The first rape allegedly took place when she was in sixth grade at primary school.
‘Part of me died that day. He used me, had fun with me and then he threw me away. He called me a whore. I never got to have a healthy relationship with sex. I did not get that choice. And that, in addition to already feeling that I was not seen and heard, created the image I have of myself. That it was so little I was worth ».
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“Just trying to survive”
In the following years, she is said to have been subjected to several assaults, from various men. As a 15-year-old, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as an actress. There she met someone who eventually tried to make the relationship sexual, she writes.
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In the book, the 42-year-old describes how she felt she had to fulfill his wish. It had serious consequences for the actor, who then began abusing drugs to relieve the pain.
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“I turned to any form of self-medication I could find, just to make ends meet. I was just trying to survive “, she writes.
As a 17-year-old, she entered into a three-year relationship. Here, too, she did not escape the abuse. He is also said to have forced her to join a threesome with another woman.
One day, however, she decided that enough was enough, and she dumped her boyfriend and stopped using drugs.
It is not known whether the persons she refers to have had any legal consequences. The people are anonymized in the book.
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– We’re happy
Today, as mentioned, the actress is a mother, and in a good and stable relationship. Actor and husband Michael married in secret in 2018, after two years as boyfriends.
– It is fantastic. We are happy. All good things are three, she cheered after the wedding.
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Suvari has been married twice before. From 2000 to 2005 she was married to Robert Brinkmann, and from 2010 to 2012 with the music producer Simone Sestito.
In April, she and her current husband were able to welcome their first child. Then they had a little son, whom they chose to call Christopher Alexander Hope.
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