Oprah Winfrey says childhood rape convinced her that girls ‘aren’t safe in a world full of men’
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Oprah Winfrey says childhood rape convinced her that girls ‘aren’t safe in a world full of men’

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Oprah Winfrey has revealed that her experiences of rape as a child convinced her that “a girl-child isn’t safe in a world full of men”. Winfrey spoke through tears as she recalled her trauma during an emotional monologue to camera on her new Apple TV+ series The Me You Can’t See. I didn’t even know what was happening to me, and I kept that secret.” She continued: “It’s just something that I accepted, that a girl-child isn’t safe in a world full of men.” Winfrey said that she discovered the prevalence of child sexual abuse when she opened up her own school for girls in South Africa. Oprah Winfrey speaks about her childhood trauma in the first episode of The Me You Can’t See Numerous other girls at the school, in solidarity with the student, then began opening up about their own experiences with sexual assault.

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