Peterson says Chamberlain assaulted her during a house party in the '70s -- and tells TooFab that stepping into Elvira's shoes shortly after was like armor for her (via toofab)
Peterson told TooFab there was a sense of catharsis that came with writing this specific chapter in her book, titled,"You'll Never Work In This Town Again." Since we spoke with her before the book was released and the reveal was made public, she was still concerned about the backlash she could receive once the memoir drops.
"I had never told anybody, almost no one in the world knows about that, my family doesn't know. Nobody knows," she said."So that was the first and it was very hard to write about it, and I'm still, I'm still worried about backlash." "There are other celebrities have done this kind of thing and guess who gets blamed? The girl," she continued."I mean look at, what happened to the woman that he did that to? Where's she? What happened with her? He's, you know, on the court.
"It's funny, when I finally got started becoming Elvira and when I would show up as Elvira, nobody screwed with Elvira. I mean, nobody," she told TooFab."I could be around a whole gang of bikers and when they'd come up to my table to get an autograph or something, they'd turn into little whimpering little girls."
"There's just something about, all of a sudden, nobody was grabbing at me, hitting on me. It was just like, hands off," she continued."The costume and the whole persona became this awesome shield. Honestly I think guys quit trying to do that thing, you know, to me, which they done to me all my life as a redhead."
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