Keke Palmer is opening up about being a sufferer of child-on-child sexual abuse.
Forward of the discharge of her new ebook Grasp of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative on Nov. 19, the place she mentions being molested by a peer when she was round 5 years outdated, the actress and singer spoke candidly to Folks journal in regards to the traumatic expertise.
“People don’t really think about child-on-child molestation, but it’s something that exists,” Palmer mentioned. “I felt weird and violated, but I didn’t really know how to place it. I just knew I had all these weird feelings and thoughts, and I felt a little bit out of control and overwhelmed.”
Having been drawn to acting from a younger age, the Child, That is Keke Palmer host scored her first small position at age 10 in 2004’s Barbershop 2. Nonetheless, it wasn’t till two years later that Palmer realized the non-public affect of the trauma she endured.
“I was reading a book about sexual abuse, and it said all these things about anxiety and hyper-sexualization,” the Child, That is Keke Palmer host recalled. “All of this stuff that I attributed to me but really it was because of what I had experienced.”
As soon as she was in a position to lastly course of the incident, “it wasn’t about blaming that other child,” she mentioned, “we don’t know sometimes what has happened to us, especially if it doesn’t look the way that the world has told you it looks like.”
Palmer went on to develop into a toddler star within the years that adopted, having landed the lead position in True Jackson VP on Nickelodeon. She has since starred in dozens of tasks, together with Scream Queens, 2019’s Hustlers and 2022’s Nope.
“Fame shocked us. It was a shock that I could make that much money, that I could go to Universal Studios and have a hundred people surrounding me at once,” she mentioned of her household’s response to her rise to stardom at a younger age. “The weight of that was real bad, and we all felt it in so many different ways.”
