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05
May 2006
Teri
Hatcher Tells Of Abuse
Anguish
A
sobbing Teri
Hatcher
opened up to Oprah
Winfrey about years of
sexual abuse she
suffered at the hands of
her uncle.
In
her first TV interview
on the subject since
revealing in March that
she had been molested as
a child, the Desperate
Housewives star also saw
a video message from the
family of teenager Sarah
Van Cleemput, who
committed suicide after
being abused by the same
man.
Teri
Hatcher, who went to
prosecutors in 2002 with
her own story after
hearing about the
14-year-old's case,
tearfully told the chat
show host the worst
thing she recalled about
the ordeals.
"He
was touching me and he
said to me, 'Doesn't
this feel good?',"
Hatcher
explained.
"It
is something that I've
really struggled with,
because if I let sex
feel good, if I let sex
be what a woman should
have with a man that she
cares about, then
somehow he was
right.
Teri
Hatcher said her uncle,
Richard Stone, molested
her for three years,
starting when she was
five years
old.
After
she went to police he
pleaded guilty to four
counts of child
molestation in Sarah's
case and was jailed for
14 years.
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