Selma Blair writes in her memoir about how she started drinking at a young age and a traumatizing incident on a college spring break trip
In her early years, Blair, who has been sober since 2016, writes that she often didn’t get drunk but instead would take “quick sips whenever my anxiety would alight.”
“I usually barely even got tipsy. I became an expert alcoholic, adept at hiding my secret,” she writes. But she drank more in her teens and 20s and after a day of binge-drinking on a college spring break trip, she was raped by at least one if not two people. “I don’t know if both of them raped me. One of them definitely did,” she writes. “I made myself small and quiet and waited for it to be over. I wish I could say what happened to me that night was an anomaly, but it wasn’t. I have been raped, multiple times, because I was too drunk to say the words ‘Please. Stop.’ Only that one time was violent. I came out of each event quiet and ashamed.
“Writing that stopped me dead in my tracks,” she says. “My sense of trauma was bigger than I knew. I did not realize that assault was so central in my life. I had so much shame and blame. I’m grateful I felt safe enough to put it on the page. And then can work on it with a therapist and with other writing, and really relieve that burden of shame on myself.”
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