Rina Sawayama Reveals She Was Groomed at Age 17
justjared.comRina Sawayama is opening up about trauma from her past. The 33-year-old Hold the Girl singer and John Wick 4 star got candid on BBC Three’s In Conversation, speaking about the making of her sophomore record.
During the discussion, she admitted that the album came about after extensive sessions of sex and relationship therapy. Keep reading to find out more… “This is the first time I’m talking about this, but essentially, through doing sex therapy – sex and relationship therapy – I realized that really something that I thought was a relationship that I had, when I was 17, was actually I was groomed,” she said. “Then why that realization happened in my 30s was because I was finally his age.” That revelation led to her to create the song “Your Age.” “I remember distinctly how uncomfortable that made me, but I didn’t put the two and two together.
And it was through this very intense form of therapy, which I feel so lucky to be able to have access to, that I was able to come to terms with that, and it completely broke my whole world apart,” she said. “It came to light that, that was what was happening in my school, basically, it was a school teacher.
I was so badly slut-shamed, that I developed so much shame around my sexuality, and lost completely my sense of self, I detached from my skin like inside, I don’t know how to describe it.
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