Riina-Maija Palander was forced to have sex – She is now talking about the traumatic experience –

Riina-Maija Palander talks about her traumatic experience in her youth in the podcast. Kaisa Vehkalahti

An entrepreneur known from reality TV shows Riina-Maija Palander talks about his youth experiences in the Kaksoiselämää podcast. She says that an acquaintance forced her to have sex. Palander was in his early twenties at the time.

– I remember that I was forcibly taken as a young girl. It was such a traumatic experience for me that I didn’t remember it. Then suddenly, after many years, it came to mind somewhere. I don’t even remember that situation. Tears began to flow from my eyes. I was in complete shock. It came to mind so vividly, Riina-Maija Palander recalls the situation in the podcast.

– After all, the mind works in such a way that it excludes unpleasant experiences. Then suddenly they come from somewhere.

Palander told the person who was with him about it, when an emotional memory came through. It had been years since then.

– I didn’t go to discuss it with a therapist, he says to his co-host Petri Voutilainen.

Palander says that the experience left scars.

– I was very young. I had only been in sexual contact for the first time, he says.

Due to experience, Riina-Maija Palander has been careful about who she lets near her.

– I lost confidence in the whole thing. That’s why one-night stands are not my thing, because I don’t know what a person can do to me, she says.

In the podcast, he shares a tip for those who have experienced similar things.

– Tell a loved one what has happened. As long as you don’t say it out loud, you deny it.