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Kerry Washington Reflects on the Impact of Her Sexual Assault on Her Life: 'I Was Gaslit'

Kerri Washington discussed the impact her sexual assault has had on her life while discussing her memoir 'Thicker Than Water' at the 'Los Angeles Times' Festival of Books at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles on Saturday, April 20.

When asked about how the abuse has shaped the person she is, Washington told Erika D. Smith that it was one of the early instances in her life when someone denied the truth to her and made her doubt her intuition. At Saturday's event, she told Smith that she revealed she was sexually assaulted in the book because it was an example of the truth being withheld from her, which made it difficult for her to find the essence of who she was. At the Festival of Books, Kerry said that by telling her the truth about her biology, her parents gave her the gift of being able to trust herself again because she always had a sense of "some kind of secret being kept" in her home.

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