# is it just me? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 18, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me/619210 "2012-04-18T21:55:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dngnb8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@dngnb8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dngnb8)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me/619210/1 "2012-04-18T21:55:14Z")
Or does every star that is out of the public eye for some time “seem” to have a big revelation of a tragedy in the past? The current celebrity to “share” that she was molested is Vanessa Williams. Now let me preface this by saying I am not insensitive to this event. I think that people who commit this crime have a special place of suffering to endure. That being said Why now? Why does every celebrity have to share this when theyve been off the radar for some time? Seriously? AND!!! It is in a book! Come buy my book and read about how I was molested. It helps my catharsis to get rich off you! Sorry, but I tend to look upon these type of people with less sympathy, and IMHO, I think they detract from people who truly have suffered. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me/619210/2 "2012-04-18T22:05:54Z")
Tyler Perry was on some talk show saying how he was molested by many different unrelated people :eek: [http://www.azcentral.com/ent/celeb/articles/2010/10/20/20101020tyler-perry-opens-up-oprah-about-molestation.html](http://www.azcentral.com/ent/celeb/articles/2010/10/20/20101020tyler-perry-opens-up-oprah-about-molestation.html) > [@](#): > > “I was about five or six,” the first time, he said. He was building a bird house in his backyard and a man from across the street came over and put “his hand in my pants,” said Perry. “I thought, ‘What is this?’” > > The next person was “a male nurse at the hospital. And he was doing the same thing. … Then there was the man in the church who used God and the bible to justify a lot of the things that were going on. That was my first sexual appearance - this man performing oral sex on me as a boy.” > > And there was the mother of a friend of his, who seduced Perry when he was 10. He went over to play with her son and she locked the front door, laid on the couch and spread her legs, not allowing him to leave. “She puts the key inside herself and tells me to get it. I get the key but I feel my body betraying me again. I felt an erection. This is so disgusting - what these people did to this little boy - she pulled me on top of her and I felt myself inside of her.” ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me/619210/3 "2012-04-18T22:16:17Z")
> [@dngnb8](#): > > Why now? … Come buy my book… Asked and answered. People who need to share their stories for their health share them with close friends, loved ones, and professionals. People who need to share their stories to sell their product share them with a publicity agent who packages them for maximum profit. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me/619210/4 "2012-04-18T22:23:46Z")
You’ll see some of them drag the same story out again every few years to get some publicity. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me/619210/5 "2012-04-19T10:55:42Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > You’ll see some of them drag the same story out again every few years to get some publicity. I don’t believe any of them. I assume this occurs after a lengthy meeting with their publicist that goes something like this: “We’ve looked into several options, shaving your head won’t work, it’s not enough and everyone laughs. Lohan’s poisoned the wall for awhile on the rehab thing, and you say you don’t want to get pregnant. In the meeting yesterday, we decided some sort of past tragedy would be easiest, and it’s pretty popular right now. So what do you prefer; Molestation? Rape? Abuse? We can do a quick analysis and see which gives you the most bang for the buck. But choose something quick, the cameras are turning elsewhere.” Yeah. I’m cynical. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me/619210/6 "2012-04-19T11:23:58Z")
I’ve never been molested. Never. I believe that is what has held me back. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2012, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me/619210/7 "2012-04-19T11:42:54Z")
Well, we have Vanessa Williams and Tyler Perry mentioned here so far. I seem to recall Rosanne Barr discovering some “repressed memories” or some such thing a number of years ago. Who else has gone public with revelations like these? I think we’re still a bit short of “every star” as posited by the OP…