{"id":272966,"date":"2016-11-30T07:13:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T07:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=272966"},"modified":"2016-11-30T07:13:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T07:13:01","slug":"i-was-raped-evan-rachel-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/11\/i-was-raped-evan-rachel-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I was raped’ – Evan Rachel Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"

US actress Evan Rachel Wood says she’s been raped twice.<\/p>\n

In an open letter on Twitter, the 29-year-old said she’d been attacked by a “significant other” and a bar owner.<\/p>\n

She wrote the post after an interview in Rolling Stone magazine, in which she talked about being subjected to “physical, psychological, sexual” abuse and attempting suicide in her early 20s.<\/p>\n

The star said the attacks happened “many, many years ago”.<\/p>\n

She also claimed that the rapes were “one of the many factors” that contributed to an attempt to take her own life.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

“I don’t believe we live in a time where people can stay silent any longer,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

\"Evan<\/div>\n

“I certainly can’t. Not given the state our world is in with its blatant bigotry and sexism.<\/p>\n

“It should be talked about because it’s swept under the rug as nothing and I will not accept this as ‘normal’. It’s a serious problem.<\/p>\n

“I am still standing. I am alive. I am happy. I am strong. But I am still not ok.<\/p>\n

“Yes, I have been raped. By a significant other while we were together. And on a separate occasion, by the owner of a bar.”<\/p>\n

\"Evan<\/div>\n

In the letter the actress doesn’t say whether she reported the alleged attacks to police or whether she took any legal action.<\/p>\n

“The first time I was unsure that if it was done by a partner it was still in fact rape, until too late,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

“Also who would believe me.<\/p>\n

“And the second time, I thought it was my fault and that I should have fought back more, but I was scared.”<\/p>\n

Evan Rachel Wood plays Dolores in Sky Atlantic’s sci-fi Western series, Westworld.<\/p>\n

\"Evan<\/div>\n

In the first episode her life-like robot character is shown being dragged off to be raped.<\/p>\n

But she’s defended how the show depicts sexual violence.<\/p>\n

“The thing about Westworld is we don’t actually show any act of rape,” she told Rolling Stone.<\/p>\n

“I was affected by things being written off as locker-room talk – I had a very, very visceral reaction to it. But the show is definitely a commentary on that.”<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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