Valerie Bertinelli is speaking up for the first time about the sexual abuse she allegedly experienced at age 11.
“I guess because I’m healing from it, it’s not so scary anymore,” Bertinelli, 65, told People on Wednesday, March 4. “I can say it out loud. I was sexually assaulted. It doesn’t feel like it owns me anymore.”
Bertinelli noted that she previously “had no plans to reveal this” until she started working on her upcoming memoir, Getting Naked, which will be released on March 10.
“This was going to be a book about teaching people how to love themselves,” she said. “I did not know that I w...
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