Sharing her story. Mena Suvari is best known for her roles in American Pie and American Beauty — but now, she’s sharing the extremely difficult struggles she faced through the years.
In her new book, The Great Peace, the 42-year-old actress revealed that she was raped by her older brother’s friend when she was 12.
After that, everything changed.“I never was all right again,” Suvari wrote in the memoir, available now. “It feels strange when I experience second-guessing myself when I would like to choose the word ‘rape.’ Because I didn’t end up in the hospital.
I didn’t end up unconscious. But isn’t just that I said no enough?”Shortly after the assault, the model began dabbling in substance abuse — consuming anything from alcohol and
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