Mena Suvari is getting very candid. The 42-year-old American Beauty star opened up about her memoir, The Great Peace, in an interview with People. “Between the ages of 12 and 20 I was the victim of repeated sexual abuse,” she sadly revealed. Click inside to read more… She said the abuse began in the sixth grade when she was raped by one of her older brothers’ friends. “No, I don’t want to do that,” she recalls herself saying in the book, adding that he raped her at his family house just before she turned 13. “Part of me died that day.
He used me, had fun with me, and then disposed of me. He called me a whore. I never got to have a healthy expression of [sex].
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